When is an Admin not an Admin?

[Randall Arnold]

I set up Windows XP recently on 2 PCs. On one everything is fine. However,
on the other I have 2 current problems: I cannot install the Java Virtual
Machine, and the Advanced tab on network properties (that allows Firewall to
be set) is not visible. Looking into it, I found that I don't have admin
rights-- even when I log on as Admin! I have never encountered this before.

An exhaustive search of the MS Knowledge Base and Google has turned up
nothing. Can anyone help on this?

Many thanks,

Randall Arnold

 

[George McMillin]

the same thing has happened to me. Did you find an answer?
George McMillin, (e-mail address removed)

 

[Randall Arnold]

Not yet!

Randall Arnold

the same thing has happened to me. Did you find an answer?
George McMillin, (e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

Not sure if this'll help - I stumbled across it looking
for a solution to a different problem, and thought it
might assist you. Good luck!


Subject: Re: I AM the Administrator - but I can't aadd
privileges to myself
From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <[email protected]> Sent:
1/10/2004 3:52:49 AM




It sounds to me like your are using NTFS filesystem and
the permissions on C:\Program Files somehow became
out of whack.
You could try opening a cmd prompt (start / run cmd)
and in it enter the commands
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g Users:R
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g System:F
cacls "C:\Program Files" /t /e /g Administrators:F
These will restore part of the installation default
permissions
that normally exists on C:\Program Files, and it is the
part that
is important for the environment you have described, where
you are a stand-alone system with yourself as the one
user.

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[Randall Arnold]

Thanks!

I don't get that particular error, but I ran the refreshes to see if thet'll
help. If not, I'm gonna have to reinstall XP! : (

Randall Arnold