Admin error

[Elvey]

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

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

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.

 

[C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T]

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

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