Re: Built In Admin account vs Created one

From: Steven L Umbach (sumbach_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:16:12 GMT

 It is possible for even the administrator account to have its
rights/permissions changed somewhere along the line, but again the
administrator has the power to change things back. Of course if virus
infections, etc are involved there could be major corruption/instability to
the operating system which usually a reinstall is needed to fix. If nothing
seems to help, the secedit command to restore default security settings is
always worth a try. Using Sytem File Checker with sfc /scannow may also
help, just be sure to have install cd in hand. There have been more than a
few times where I have thrown in the towel and done a reinstall after a lot
of head scratching. --- Steve

"wutsitallabout" <wutsitallabout@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:02eb01c36f68$acfd4ff0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
> Geez, you impress me ! Thanks.
> Just to let you know, these are the IT dept tech machines
> having these problems...lol. Not our staff machines, whom
> we have made powerusers.
>
> I am using my machine as the built in Admin, not logging
> onto a domain and not a member of any other group. So,
> there shouldn't be anything overriding or interfering with
> full admin rights, right? :)
>
> Also, to get even deeper here (if this is too much for you
> I understand), my own machine which I am vigilant about
> when applying service paks, patches, virus def updates etc
> when they are available has acted strange in other ways as
> well. Such as my copy and paste disappearing. I read on
> another forum that this was a symptom of blaster, even
> though I never had reason to suspect I was infected, I had
> none of the typical blaster symptoms at all, but I applied
> the blaster patch again anyway (even though I should have
> been protected since I do updates every couple of days and
> definitely had done one several times since the release of
> the patch )and ran the Symantec removal tool which did not
> find blaster.
>
> Maybe I'll just do an fdisk and save myself grief.
>
> Thanks Once Again

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