RE: Admin accounts-loss of privileges

From: Gruteo (Gruteo_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/15/05 

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:21:03 -0700

I'm not a pro but what I would do is reboot in Safe Mode (on my PC it's
pressing F8 just prior to the Windows loading screen), and either just doing
the uninstall and be done with it or going to a prior System Restore point to
see if you can get your admin priviledges back on other accounts.

Safe Mode logs you on as the built-in Administrator account in XP 

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"neilhu" wrote:
> Hi
> Im trying to uninstall a program on works comp but even though ive signed in 
> as myself(administrator account) and the default administrator account. but 
> error message about having no administrator priveleges. Three other computers 
> set up same time and exactly the same users are working fine. I can log in as 
> Administrator, no problem. Running winxp pro sp2.
> Its driving me up the wall, cannot figure it out. Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated
> Cheers

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