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Problem with setting Admin rights on Windows XP Home PC
I was forced, recently, to reformat the boot drive on my PC (running
Windows XP Home, Service Pack 2). fortunately, I had ghosted the contents of my boot drive, to a new hard drive, so I made the new drive my boot drive. I then used my Windows XP install CD to run a Repair Installation. It works, for the most part, except for the fact I can no longer install drivers. I tried running sfc, from the command line, and was told I did not have administrator rights. I checked the user profiles option, under Control Panel, and this showed my user profile DID have administrator rights. I rebooted in safe mode, and created a new profile, with administrator rights. Unfortunately, when I rebooted normally, and tried installing drivers under my new profile, I got the same error messages. ATI's Catalyst Control Panel also confirms my lack of administrator rights. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can rectify this situation, short of reinstalling the OS? |
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Problem with setting Admin rights on Windows XP Home PC
If you can get a copy of secedit from an installation of XP Pro you can try
to use it as described in the KB article below to reset security settings back to default defined levels but ultimately your best solution probably will be to do a clean install. Often those access control lists and user rights become modified by malware to try and prevent administrators from cleaning the computer. Make sure you visit Microsoft Website "Protect Your PC" tips to make sure you are doing the basics to protect your computer and network. --- Steve http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;313222 http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...2/Default.mspx --- Protect Your PC "Jim Seay" wrote in message ... I was forced, recently, to reformat the boot drive on my PC (running Windows XP Home, Service Pack 2). fortunately, I had ghosted the contents of my boot drive, to a new hard drive, so I made the new drive my boot drive. I then used my Windows XP install CD to run a Repair Installation. It works, for the most part, except for the fact I can no longer install drivers. I tried running sfc, from the command line, and was told I did not have administrator rights. I checked the user profiles option, under Control Panel, and this showed my user profile DID have administrator rights. I rebooted in safe mode, and created a new profile, with administrator rights. Unfortunately, when I rebooted normally, and tried installing drivers under my new profile, I got the same error messages. ATI's Catalyst Control Panel also confirms my lack of administrator rights. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can rectify this situation, short of reinstalling the OS? |
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