Re: Administrative Access

From: Tibor Biro (tiborbiro@rogers.com)
Date: 09/04/02 

From: "Tibor Biro" <tiborbiro@rogers.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:17:27 -0400

If you have the scheduler service running as SYSTEM (this is the default)
you could start an interactive explorer as SYSTEM and fix your PC from
there.

Here's a quick hack to do this:

1. Start a command prompt. You will need it in a sec.
2. Open the Shutdown dialog box from Start/Shutdown and holding down the
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT click Cancel. This will close the current explorer (taskbar
will dissapear) but leave your Command Prompt window open
3. In the command prompt you opened at step 1 type "at 19:30 /interactive
explorer.exe". The time is supposed to be the nearest you can get in the
future. Use "time /t" to see the current time, my time was 19:29 when I
wrote these for you..
4. Wait until the scheduled task kicks in, you should see the task bar
reappear, you are now running as SYSTEM.
5. Simply go to whatever tools you are used to to fix your permissions.
6. Repeat the trick from step 2 to close the explorer again and type
"explorer.exe" in the command prompt. Alternatively you can logoff and just
logon again. 

--
Regards,
Tibor Biro
MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD
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"Ron" <ronkrevat@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:d07c01c2540a$03cda490$b1e62ecf@tkmsftngxa04...
> I seem to have lost administrative access on my own
> computer. Recently, I was trying to give ASPNET
> administrative access, so that I could use ASPNET to
> programmatically make changes to my Access database. I
> therefore made ASPNET a member of the administrative
> group.  Now, I no longer have any administrative access
> for my own username. When I try to enter the Users and
> Passwords section of my control panel, I get the
> message, "You must be a member of the Administrators group
> on this computer to open the Users and Passwords control
> panel." Also, if I try to logon as ASPNET, I get the
> message, "The local policy of this system does not allow
> you to log on interactively."  I now only have "Read Only"
> access to my own Access database.
> How can I get Administrative access for my own computer?

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