Guest Elvey Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 My system has been working fine for months, then today it would not boot passed the log on sequence. I swithched off and restarted and it said it had a consistancy error which it fixed. Once booted up I noted that all my personal settings were gone. The problem is when I try to change them it says " This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I am the system administrator and the account is set up with full admin rights. I would be grateful if anyone has a solution short of reloading XP. Thanks Elvey
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Admin error "Elvey" <elvey@msn.com> wrote: > Once booted up I noted that all my personal settings were gone. > > The problem is when I try to change them it says " This operation has > been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please > contact your system administrator." > > I am the system administrator and the account is set up with full > admin rights. > > I would be grateful if anyone has a solution short of reloading XP. Restricted admin rights are usually caused by malware when installed with administrative privileges. In this case, malware can bypass any anti- virus easily and is hard to detect and even harder to remove. This scenario is very likely when using an administrative account even when not necessary (opening mail attachments, internet surfing etc.) which seems to be the case. -- d-d
Guest C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: Admin error Elvey wrote: > My system has been working fine for months, then today it would not boot > passed the log on sequence. > > I swithched off and restarted and it said it had a consistancy error which > it fixed. > > Once booted up I noted that all my personal settings were gone. > > The problem is when I try to change them it says " This operation has been > cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact > your system administrator." > > I am the system administrator and the account is set up with full admin > rights. > > I would be grateful if anyone has a solution short of reloading XP. > > > Thanks > > Elvey Hi Elvey, You might want to verify that you are actually 'in' the account you think you are. What I mean is that if your NTUSER.DAT file got corrupted, Windows might have logged you in with a temporary profile. If you look in the 'Documents & Settings' folder and see that there are 2 different folder with your log in ID and one of them has a weird number or such, then that is probably what happened. If that is the case, then copy the original folder structure to a separate place on your hard disk. Then delete both the original and temporary profile. Create a new profile than copy the data (leaving out the NTUSER.DAT file) and you should be back in business. Ciao . . . C.Joseph "A promise is nothing more than an attempt to respond to an unreasonable demand." http://blog.tlerma.com/ A Windows professional's view of entering the World of Linux
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