Network Connection

[Jeff Cichocki]

Recently something changed on my computer. I can no longer change the
properties of my network card. I get the error message of "You do not have
sufficient priveleges for accessing connection properties." My user account
is set up to be an administrator. If I log in with the administrator
account, I still have the same problem. How do I restore the security
settings? My computer is an XP Pro SP2 laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jeff

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Have you tried going into safe mode and to change the passwords for
admin account from there?

To change password, I suggest change to #2 such as:

PASSWORD to PASSWORD02

Obviously, use your own passwords but make it simple until everything
works fine.

See if this works.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

First verify that you are indeed logged on as an administrator. You can use
the command net localgroup administrators to see membership of the
administrators group. If you are still restricted then maybe you installed
and application that is "protecting" your computer [that you may have
configured] to prevent malware from modifying it or possibly some malware
has reconfigured your computer. I would do a full malware scan and a spyware
scan with something like AdAware SE being sure to use the latest definitions
for any program you use and also scan in Safe Mode. If all that fails open
local Group Policy and go to user configuration/administrative
templates/network/network connections and define any setting that looks like
it may override your restriction which mostly would be disable but read the
description of the setting. If all that fails see the link below on how to
use secedit from the command line to reset security settings back to default
defined levels to see if that helps. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222 --- note
you can use /areas to specify specific areas to configure.

 

[Guest]

I'm running XP Home SP2 and trying to get three home PC's (two wired to
router and one wireless) to file and printer share. One wired and the
wireless "talk" to each other with no problem. The other wired PC will not
talk. I'm sure it is a firewall problem and when I go to Windows Firewall in
Control Panel I see it is being controlled by "Group Policy". How do I
disable Group Policy?

First verify that you are indeed logged on as an administrator. You can use
the command net localgroup administrators to see membership of the
administrators group. If you are still restricted then maybe you installed
and application that is "protecting" your computer [that you may have
configured] to prevent malware from modifying it or possibly some malware
has reconfigured your computer. I would do a full malware scan and a spyware
scan with something like AdAware SE being sure to use the latest definitions
for any program you use and also scan in Safe Mode. If all that fails open
local Group Policy and go to user configuration/administrative
templates/network/network connections and define any setting that looks like
it may override your restriction which mostly would be disable but read the
description of the setting. If all that fails see the link below on how to
use secedit from the command line to reset security settings back to default
defined levels to see if that helps. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222 --- note
you can use /areas to specify specific areas to configure.

Recently something changed on my computer. I can no longer change the
properties of my network card. I get the error message of "You do not
have
sufficient priveleges for accessing connection properties." My user
account
is set up to be an administrator. If I log in with the administrator
account, I still have the same problem. How do I restore the security
settings? My computer is an XP Pro SP2 laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jeff