Re: Add/remove hardware problem with Administrator account

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/09/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:46:10 GMT

Hi Matt. This has been coming up a lot lately. You may want to try to restore your
security settings back to default and if that does not help possibly a repair
installation. See the links to the two KB articles below. You may want to first try
just resetting just your user rights assignments by appending /areas user_rights to
the secedit command. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

"Matt McNeill" <mmcneill@wsi.aquilex.com> wrote in message
news:39d301c37614$27ee2d90$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am having a problem access the add/remove hardware
> program in the control panel. I get an error message
> stating "You do not have sufficient security privileges
> to install or uninstall dvices on this computer. Please
> contact your site administrator, or log off and log on
> again as an administrator and try again." The trouble is
> that I am already logged in as Administrator. I have
> also tried logging in as other accounts with
> administrator privileges and that has not worked. I have
> gone into the user/password settings and changed the
> privileges for each account to ensure they are properly
> set up (though Administrator should work by default). I
> have run out of ideas and was hoping someone could point
> me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt

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