administrator security issue with xp pro

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Hello

Forgive long post. A friend of mine asked me to look at her pc. This is a month old XP Pro SP1 gateway. She is getting permisson error msg when she goes to device manager. The exact msg is ... "you do not have sufficient security privileges to uninstall devices or to change device properties or device drivers. Please contact your site administrator, or logout and log in again as an administrator and try again." Another error is when trying to view security event log... "Unable to complete the operation on Security, A required privilege is not held by the client". This happens under Administrator account also. Both administrator and her account are in administrators group. I was able to change the admin password with her account and enable security auditing. I did that to see if she would get permission errors. Somehow it seems like security is messed up on her box. This is a standalone pc part of default workgroup (mshome). She hasnt made any winupdates because her internet is down.

I have been searching internet and found some posts. One guy suggested this kb article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222 . I think its all i need, but i wanted to post her to get more ideas about this. I never came across this in w2k or xp

Thanks.

 

[pauly [MSFT]]

Please try the steps outlined in the following KB Article:

313222 HOW TO: Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222

MORE INFORMATION:

310791 Description of the Software Restriction Policies in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310791

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Windows XP Security Homepage:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/security/default.asp

Windows 2000 Security Homepage:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/security/default.asp

Top 10 Windows Newsgroups Security Questions:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/default.asp?url=/technet/newsgro
ups/nodepages/sectop10.asp

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Paul Hayes, MCSE
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
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| From: "=?Utf-8?B?TG9nYW4=?=" <[email protected]>
| Subject: administrator security issue with xp pro
| Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 18:46:06 -0800
|
| Hello,

Forgive long post. A friend of mine asked me to look at her pc. This is a
month old XP Pro SP1 gateway. She is getting permisson error msg when she
goes to device manager. The exact msg is ... "you do not have sufficient
security privileges to uninstall devices or to change device properties or
device drivers. Please contact your site administrator, or logout and log
in again as an administrator and try again." Another error is when trying
to view security event log... "Unable to complete the operation on
Security, A required privilege is not held by the client". This happens
under Administrator account also. Both administrator and her account are in
administrators group. I was able to change the admin password with her
account and enable security auditing. I did that to see if she would get
permission errors. Somehow it seems like security is messed up on her box.
This is a standalone pc part of default workgroup (mshome). She hasnt made
any winupdates because her internet is down.

I have been searching internet and found some posts. One guy suggested this
kb article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222 .
I think its all i need, but i wanted to post her to get more ideas about
this. I never came across this in w2k or xp.

Thanks.
|