Re: I thought I was the administrator!

Are you using XP Pro or XP Home? If your user account is a member of any
local group other than administrators and users then remove it from those
groups. Are you using any software such as a spyware or antivirus program
that is locking down your computer to prevent important changes? Sometimes
such programs can do that and will also restrict the administrator account
until the protection is disabled. Otherwise malware can place restrictions
on user accounts including administrators. Running the secedit command as
shown in the link below [you can copy and paste it into a command window] on
XP Pro will often fix such problems but that will not remove the malware and
undo other damage that it may have done. --- Steve

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

"Loanarranger" <Loanarranger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Okay, Steven, I finally figured out the syntax, and yes, I am listed as
the
administrator. Your instructions were fine. My interpretation was a bit
skewed. Any suggestions at this point? I promise I will think before I
speak.
Ron Sheets

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Verify that you are indeed logged on as an administrator. You can use the
command net localgroup administrators as shown in the example below to
view
membership of the administrators group and you should see your user
account
name included under members. In XP Home the built in administrator
account
is only available in Safe Mode though it can be used to add more users to
the local administrators group. --- Steve

D:\WINDOWS\system32>net localgroup administrators
Alias name administrators
Comment Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to
the
compu
ter/domain

Members

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Administrator
Steve
The command completed successfully.

"Loanarranger" <Loanarranger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I hope I'm posting in the right group. Recently, while attempting to
change
some startup settings in the System Configuration Utility, I got an
error
message which said, "An Access Denied error was returned while
attempting
to
change a service. You may need to log on using an Administrator account
to
make the specified changes." My log-on account "is" the Administrator.
I
have
a Dell Dimension 4600, with 1.5GB ram, Intel Pentium4 HT 2.8MHz
processor,
running Windows XP SP-2. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
Ron Sheets





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