No Access

[barney]

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
My PC uses Windows XP pro SP1.
After installing the latest updates, i.e. 844105, 823710 en 822925,
When I try to open a program, by clicking on a quick- lauch icon or double
clicking on an icon on the desktop, I get the following error message:
"Unable to get access to the given device, path or file.
You may not h ave the required authority."
(the messages has been translated into english)
When I access the C:-drive e.g. through MyComputer or by starting cmd.exe
(Start / Run / cmd) and startup Explorer.exe, than I can use the desktop
icons again. But after a reboot the problem is there again.
The entries in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
are also not processed. Nor the entries in the StartUp folder.

In order to try and solve the problem, I have stepped back to a point before
the latest updates, but this did not help.
Also I have added security-rights to the files on my hard-drive, but again
no success.
What does help is log-off and log-on again (without rebooting).
It seems that the first log-on does not seem to get the correct
access-rights.
A strange affair, but does any one have any suggestions?
Thanks
Fred

what happens in safe mode as the admin?

if no problems create a new user account and ditch your
damaged one.

 

[Fred Flintstone]

thanks for your reaction, barney
the complaints about rights have disapeared, but don't ask me how this
happened.

do you think my local profile is damaged ???
when I reboot into my local admin-account, I have the same problem, i.e. now
only hklm/..../run is not processed.
how could my local admin profile become damaged, normally ?

when I create a new local user profile, by logging on as a test user, the
newly created profile funcitions correctly.
but hklm/...../run is supposed to be identical for all users, am I correct ?

I have also taken a registry from 4 weeks ago, and this has the same
problem.

any more ideas ))
thnks
Fred