Frozen Switches in system

[Dorothy]

Dear Help-Team

In win xp pro sp2 all buttons in Device Manager regarding Update
Driver are dead.
I was trying to update the drivers for usb to change them in adhanced
mode, but the Update switch is doing nothing.
I tried other devices as wel just for test such as Adaptec-SCSI but
all devices in Device Manager are frozen.

(motherboard ASUS P5AD2 Premium P4 3.6 GHz 2G mem)

Thanks for your help.

Regards

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Sounds like the system thinks you are not an admin. Create a new user admin, or use the default 'administrator' account from safe
mode.

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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Dorothy" > wrote in message ...
>
> Dear Help-Team
>
> In win xp pro sp2 all buttons in Device Manager regarding Update
> Driver are dead.
> I was trying to update the drivers for usb to change them in adhanced
> mode, but the Update switch is doing nothing.
> I tried other devices as wel just for test such as Adaptec-SCSI but
> all devices in Device Manager are frozen.
>
> (motherboard ASUS P5AD2 Premium P4 3.6 GHz 2G mem)
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards

[Dorothy]

I made a new account with admin. but the same frozen Update Switches
I tried the same in Safe Mode with no result.
Any other suggestion apart from a fresh winxp (that's what my supplier
is telling me)

regards

[Dorothy]