Need Help with configuring Device Manager Permissions!?

From: Tim (yogi@unforgettable.com)
Date: 10/19/02 

From: "Tim" <yogi@unforgettable.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:42:33 -0700

I have a Windows 2000 Pro machine that will not let me do
anything with the device manager. All I can do is view the
contents of the manager....nothing else! When I select the
device manager I get the following message:

"You do not have sufficient security privileges to
uninstall devices or to change device properties or device
drivers. Please contact your site administrator, or logout
and log in again as an administrator and try again."

I am the administrator! I am the server admin. I have
tried logging in with the local admin password and I have
even removed it from the domain. Even as a stand alone
machine it will not let me do anything except view in
Device manager.
What permission in the policy do I need to look at to
correct this problem or do you have any ideas of where the
problem lies?

I tied the suggestions from NeoSadist, but they haven't
worked. I have checked all of the permissions on my other
computers and there aren't any differences that I can find
that would acount for this very unusual problem.

I've also noticed that the system will no longer allow the
updates from Microsoft to install from the website. All
updates result in a failure. I'm sure they are related,
but I'm really getting frustrated with this machine. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 Thanks

 Tim

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