Re: Admin Rights GONE!

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

sixpanel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
This is a very weird issue. Somehow, my computer decided that I no
longer have admin rights. I am running Windows XP Home.
I do not know what happened to cause this problem.
Here is what I've attempted so far:

Logging in safe mode as ADMIN and reissuing administrative rights to my
user account.

Creating a new account (while logged in ADMIN safe mode)

Restoring to a system checkpoint.

None of these options worked. The system restore will not work at all.
I get through the process and it tell me it was unable to restore. I
have tried the restore in both ADMIN and my user account.

I do not want to format this computer. I really need assistance. Will
someone please help me? I can't add/remove programs or anything.
Heck, I can't even right click on the desktop and choose Properties!
Sheesh!

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