Re: Administrative Access

From: Ron (ronkrevat@mindspring.com)
Date: 09/05/02


From: "Ron" <ronkrevat@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:43:31 -0700


Tibor,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question.
Unfortunately, when I entered "at 10:47p /interactive
explorer.exe, I received the message, "Access Denied."
Would you have any idea how I can get around this?

Ron
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>--------------------------------------
>Please respond only to the Newsgroup and not directly to
>me by email so that all may benefit from the information
>
>
>"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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