Re: Administrator account corrupt?

From: risu@speakeasy.net
Date: 01/07/03 

From: risu@speakeasy.net
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:14:37 GMT

Thanks. It says administrator has all rights. Guess I'm reinstalling.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:10:55 -0500, "Adam Tuliper"
<amt@gecko-software.com> wrote:

>a shot in the dark.. but check permissions on your userinit.exe file.
>Usually when a user logs in and logs right back off it is an issue with
>permissions on this file.
>
><Michael@_no-ip.com> wrote in message
>news:louj1vccimmuhs45p6tap60db905crn4de@4ax.com...
>> I've posted this in the win2000 general group and was advised that I
>> need to reinstall the OS which is probably correct but on the off
>> chance that someone in this groups has some different advice I'm
>> trying here. So..
>>
>> I'm running Win2K Sever as a stand alone with IIS & SQL2K.
>>
>> Everything has been OK except yesterday when I logged in as
>> administrator I just got recycled back to the Welcome to Windows,
>> Ctrl+Alt+Del box. My userid and password are accepted, Windows loads
>> my personal settings, saves my settings then brings me back to the
>> Welcome box.
>>
>> When I initially set up the machine I downgraded the built-in
>> Administrator account to user with restricted priveleges as a securiy
>> precaution.
>>
>> I created a new adminstrator account which is what is giving me the
>> problem now. It's been OK since the installation some time ago.
>>
>> I can access the PC using the buitlt in Administrator account, but
>> since it now has restricted privelges, I can't change any other
>> accounts or make many other changes.
>>
>> Is there a way to restore my current Administrator account ( the one
>> I created) or to reset the built in Admin account to it's original
>> state?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thaks,
>>
>> MH
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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