On Nov 25, 8:42*am, William Lurie wrote:
While attempting to stop MSN Messenger from loading during startup, I
uncheck it from Startup list and get "Access denied while attempting to
change a service. You may need to log on using Administrator Account to
make changes". Booting to Safe Mode and signing in as Administrator (and
only user), I still get that message. I figure there must be a KB
article on this..........


Trying to change something in msconfig you get access denied error
(but the change works):

An Access Denied error was returned while attempting to change a
service. You may need to log on using an Administrator account to make
the specified changes.

If you now or have ever had an HP printer installed, the problem is
most likely the HPZ12 service.

The msconfig changes seem to work, but the error message is annoying.

There is a possibility you will lose communications with your HP
printer if you want to prevent the error message. This may not be a
problem if you don't care about the communications or never use those
HP features.

You can also live with the message, knowing the changes really worked
or ask HP and they will usually suggest reinstalling Windows (I don't
think they know either!).

Depending on your comfort level with making system changes, here are
two solutions.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4531999_fix-...ror-using.html

http://pchell.com/support/msconfig_a...ed_error.shtml

Before making registry changes, backup your registry with this popular
free and easy to use tool:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/erunt.html

It could also be NIS Norton Internet Security 2010 or NAV Norton Anti
Virus 2010 when using XP SP3 and maybe only in some Vista system (this
is a rumor

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norto...IS/td-p/151164