domain,workgroup

[marciam]

I have an issue with my op system it does not want to boot up at all times i
have tried to change my cd rom recently and have many children playing on
home computer. so i tried to do a system restore(this has worked in the
past)from a certain date, but when i try this the computer tells me i do not
have the privilages for this action, to contact my domain adminstrator, the
system restore has been turned off due to group policy, I am the computer
administrator and i do not belong to a network and have never seen this
before can anyone help me to reset this domain or group policy issure? thank
you

 

[Hawkeye]

Do you belong to a workgroup or domain? Can you get in through safe mode to
look at the local computer policys or security policys through a mmc snap in?

 

[John Wunderlich]

I have an issue with my op system it does not want to boot up at
all times i have tried to change my cd rom recently and have many
children playing on home computer. so i tried to do a system
restore(this has worked in the past)from a certain date, but when
i try this the computer tells me i do not have the privilages for
this action, to contact my domain adminstrator, the system restore
has been turned off due to group policy, I am the computer
administrator and i do not belong to a network and have never seen
this before can anyone help me to reset this domain or group
policy issure? thank you

Here is a Microsoft article on how to disable System Restore (the state
you seem to be in now). Perhaps un-doing these changes will restore
your functionality:

"How to Disable the System Restore Configuration User Interface"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283073>

This, of course, assumes that you are using XP Pro.

HTH,
John

 

[Lem]

I have an issue with my op system it does not want to boot up at all times i
have tried to change my cd rom recently and have many children playing on
home computer. so i tried to do a system restore(this has worked in the
past)from a certain date, but when i try this the computer tells me i do not
have the privilages for this action, to contact my domain adminstrator, the
system restore has been turned off due to group policy, I am the computer
administrator and i do not belong to a network and have never seen this
before can anyone help me to reset this domain or group policy issure? thank
you

See http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html#1
[For everything you ever wanted to know about System Restore see
http://bertk.mvps.org/]

What is the malware status of the machine? With many children playing on
your home computer, you may well have picked up something that is (among
other things) preventing the use of System Restore.

Update the definitions of your antivirus application. Download
Malwarebytes AntiMalware from http://malwarebytes.org/ . Run disk
cleanup and remove all temporary files and temporary Internet files.
Reboot into safe more and and do a full system scan with your a/v and
then with MBAM.

If you don't have an a/v app, or your subscription is out of date, use
Trend Micro's Sysclean
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#TrendMicros_Sysclean or
David Lipman's Multi-A/V
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Multi-AV

Run the a/v and malware scans after rebooting into Safe Mode.


--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm