Administrator denied access to local security policy

[Peter]

I log on as administrator and always have access to the
local security settings and group policy just after the
computer has started up. Then after some time (from a few
minutes to an hour) I'm denied access. And therefore also
get problems with writing temp files to the harddrive -
and get errors returned, that I don't have rights to write
files. This happens although I'm logged on as
administrator and otherwise don't have any problems
accessing all folders and change settings.

- The computer is set as member of a workgroup, not of a
domain. I tried working without virus scan, which didn't
make any change. The problem also occur after a while even
if I don't run any programs on the computer.

- Sometimes when accessing Local security policy is seems
the computer is first scanning all the harddrive and cd-
rom drive before opening the policies, possibly searching
the file, eventhough it is in winnt\security.

- The logbook earlier gave error event 1202. I recreated
the local Group policy using article 278316. This solved
the event 1202 problem. But somehow the access to the
security policy is still denied after the computer has
been running for a while.

I hope someone has ideas on what could be wrong.

Peter

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Those are bizarzare problems and hard to troubleshoot without being there.
Make sure you are using a firewall. It almost sounds as somebody [remotely]
or some program has control of your computer. You could try sfc /scannow to
activate System File Checker to check system files but if it was my
computer, I would back up all my important data [including our user profile
under documents and settings] and configuration information such as tcp/ip
config, mail/newsgroup accounts, favorites, etc and format drive and
reinstall being sure not to connect to the internet until I had a firewall
in place either hardware or software and virus scan installed, updated, and
used for email also. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Peter]

Dear Steven,

Thanks very much for the response. I did give up on the
problem and am reinstalling everything. If others should
somehow get into the same strange situation a useful tip
is to keep the security policy database open - that avoids
getting access denied and being locked out of the
database - And might make the avoid some of the problems
following the access denied, although some of the other
problems with rights to write to drives etc. came anyways.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
Those are bizarzare problems and hard to troubleshoot without being there.
Make sure you are using a firewall. It almost sounds as somebody [remotely]
or some program has control of your computer. You could try sfc /scannow to
activate System File Checker to check system files but if it was my
computer, I would back up all my important data [including our user profile
under documents and settings] and configuration information such as tcp/ip
config, mail/newsgroup accounts, favorites, etc and format drive and
reinstall being sure not to connect to the internet until I had a firewall
in place either hardware or software and virus scan installed, updated, and
used for email also. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

I log on as administrator and always have access to the
local security settings and group policy just after the
computer has started up. Then after some time (from a few
minutes to an hour) I'm denied access. And therefore also
get problems with writing temp files to the harddrive -
and get errors returned, that I don't have rights to write
files. This happens although I'm logged on as
administrator and otherwise don't have any problems
accessing all folders and change settings.

- The computer is set as member of a workgroup, not of a
domain. I tried working without virus scan, which didn't
make any change. The problem also occur after a while even
if I don't run any programs on the computer.

- Sometimes when accessing Local security policy is seems
the computer is first scanning all the harddrive and cd-
rom drive before opening the policies, possibly searching
the file, eventhough it is in winnt\security.

- The logbook earlier gave error event 1202. I recreated
the local Group policy using article 278316. This solved
the event 1202 problem. But somehow the access to the
security policy is still denied after the computer has
been running for a while.

I hope someone has ideas on what could be wrong.

Peter

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