Account Permissions Problem

[Guest]

I have a problem with my login account on XP Professional. I have read
numerous posts here about similar problems but have not found a solution that
works for me yet. To summarize:

I have three regular login accounts - mine (admin account), my wife's (admin
acct) and my son's (limited acct). For some reason control panel is not
available on the start menu any longer when I am logged in my account (I do
have the "set program access" on the menu but when I click on it it tells me
I do not have permission to access). Control Panel is available on my wife's
login start menu. When I go to user accounts in my wife's control panel - my
account is listed there as an admin account.

So after reading a few similar problems in other forums I believe my account
may be corrupted. So I create a new account under my wife's login, which I
plan to copy my settings and files over to and delete the existing corrupted
one, but I cannot create anything but a limited account there. I then
ctrl-alt-del twice in the welcome screen to access the real admin account to
see if I can change it to an admin account. BUT the control panel is not
available on the start menu - when I click on the "set program access" (which
is there) it tells me that I do not have permission to access it. How can
this be if I am in - what I'm pretty sure is - the real administrator's
account??

I have also tried to add the new account to the administrators group in
lusrmgr.msc and that doesn't work either. I have spent so much time on this I
am at my wit's end. Anyone have any suggestions that might get my account
back working properly or how to get a new account???

Thanks

Lee

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the helpful ideas people. Of the many thousands of potential
solutions that I received here, I don’t know which one I will try first.
Maybe setting back a restore point or trying a repair installation or if
those don’t work maybe I will just buy a new hard drive and reinstall windows.

But thanks again – I don’t know what I would do without all of the big time
expertise on this forum!

Lee