Administrator Rights Problem

[Guest]

I just finished doing a reformat and reinstall of Windows Home Ed. and when I
got on my user account I have no permissions to end system processes in task
manager. I have already tried starting in safe mode and using the
Administrator account and even that account is unable to end system
processes. This appears to be the only restriction for the Admin accounts
that I've seen on this computer so far.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Did you leave anything on the hard drive from the previous installation of
Windows? This could cause the problem that you're seeing

Check your profiles in Windows Explorer to see if they've been duplicated
(with slightly different names).

- John

 

[John Wunderlich]

I just finished doing a reformat and reinstall of Windows Home Ed.
and when I got on my user account I have no permissions to end
system processes in task manager. I have already tried starting in
safe mode and using the Administrator account and even that
account is unable to end system processes. This appears to be the
only restriction for the Admin accounts that I've seen on this
computer so far. Any help would be appreciated.

Some of the tasks you see in Tasak Manager are actually "services" and
must be stopped using the Services Manager.
Right-click "My Computer" > Manage > Services & Applications >
Services >
Find service and double-click on it to stop it.

HTH,
John

 

[Guest]

I did a full reformat using the Windows XP CD, Deleted the partitions,
created a new partition (using 15GB out of 114GB), formatted that 15GB
partition and then later using windows formatted the other 99GB with a Quick
Format NTFS.
I checked in C:\Documents and Settings and there is "Administrator" "All
Users" "Default User" "Jaren" "Local Service" and "NetworkService"
Should I go back and reformat the 99GB partition again with a full format
incase it still contains user info?

 

[Guest]

I figured that the problem was leftover permissions from my previous install
and that must have been the case because after another format and reinstall
everything is working fine.
The process I was trying to end was only svchost.exe. I can stop processes
properly now. Thanks for all the help and ideas guys.