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Spencer
Hi,
My wife has a Gateway Windows XP Pro machine, and everything has been
working fine on it.
Two weeks ago, somehow, someway her computer got hit with the SoBig
virus. I had to manually remove, but in doing so, the registry got
damaged. XP would not boot properly after that. It came up, but there
was no task bar.
I decided to punt and re-install XP. I grabbed the system disks that
came with the computer, and choose all the defaults during install. It
seemed to go ok.
Last week, with the new Microsoft security scare, I decided to perform a
windows update on her machine. But I couldn't - everytime I went to the
website, it told me I needed Admin priviledges.
So I created a new user that's supposed to have these priviledges - no
good. I modified existing user account to have these priviledges - no
good. I tried the touble shooting page on Microsofts site that has you
editing the registry and supposedly gives all users admin rights - still
does not work.
Has anybody run into this before? When I open "user accounts" from the
control panel, I only see 3 accounts - Guest, some .net account I've
never used, and the one I created (which says Computer administrator next
to it).
Spencer
My wife has a Gateway Windows XP Pro machine, and everything has been
working fine on it.
Two weeks ago, somehow, someway her computer got hit with the SoBig
virus. I had to manually remove, but in doing so, the registry got
damaged. XP would not boot properly after that. It came up, but there
was no task bar.
I decided to punt and re-install XP. I grabbed the system disks that
came with the computer, and choose all the defaults during install. It
seemed to go ok.
Last week, with the new Microsoft security scare, I decided to perform a
windows update on her machine. But I couldn't - everytime I went to the
website, it told me I needed Admin priviledges.
So I created a new user that's supposed to have these priviledges - no
good. I modified existing user account to have these priviledges - no
good. I tried the touble shooting page on Microsofts site that has you
editing the registry and supposedly gives all users admin rights - still
does not work.
Has anybody run into this before? When I open "user accounts" from the
control panel, I only see 3 accounts - Guest, some .net account I've
never used, and the one I created (which says Computer administrator next
to it).
Spencer