ChuckC said:
Come on you MS techies! You've got to have had this
before!
Hi Chuck,
I am guessing why your post has drawn no reply
is that it is pretty hard to get a handle on your issue
from the info provided.
I believe this is the post you mentioned as "below"
<quote>
Running a laptop account that occasionally hooks up to a
netowrk. Only account able to log on is Administrator.
When attempt to create new accounts, all new accounts
receive the error message: Your account is not configured
for access to this computer.
Also am now unable to access secure websites. And Windows
Update will no longer allow access to updates.
I have deleted all previously created user accounts (not
system accounts) and still cannot create new users.
Am extremely unhappy with XP Pro and the way too thin
documentation provided. Way too many gotchas. But truly
need some help here.
</quote>
If the message "Your account is not configured
for access to this computer."
is a paraphrase, then perhaps the new accounts
are not granted the User Right to Log on locally
As your version is Pro, you may have removed the
Users group from this User Right when with the
Local Security Policy. However, as I recall, this is
not the actually wording of the message you would
see in that case.
Run Local Security Policy, and check within the
Local Policies / User Rights the grants made in the
Log on locally and also check for overrides of this
grant in the Deny Log on locally
Your issues with secure sites and WU could be a
number of things, but the first thing would be to
suspect the Security settings for the Internet Zone
within IE, of which there are quite a number.
When asking for assistance on things like this, just
stating that something does not work is rather much
not to productive. The behavior experienced, any
messages given, etc. is very useful in determining
which of often multiple possible causes may be
operative.
Given the uncertainty over the text of the message and
the other issues you report, it is possible that your
machine is not in good health, malware-wise.
The first thing we need to do is to verify that you are
running the latest version of patches and have recently
scanned for virus or other malware.
Besides the Help system documentation, you can find
a fairly large amount of XP oriented information at
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp
and if you want detailed information, the resource kit
is available online at
www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prork_overview.asp