Have lost Admin privlages

[jowilker]

I am a single user of the machine in question, I am or thought I was the administrator for my machine and three others in my home, two of which are connected wireless.

I have tried every suggestion that I have come across, including booting in the safe mode, and still can't make the administrator show up. It'll ask for a password and when there isn't one I hit the wall.

There was no admin password set, none set for the primary user, me. I have had the ability to be the admin until recently.

The machine is running XP Pro srv pk2 and has been running nearly 3 years 7/24.

Everytime I try anything from trying to install renewed virus software, to changing user settings in the registry I keep getting Access is denied.

Any suggestions??

John

 

[Osiris]

Your profile could be corrupt. Did you try making a new users? Can you not get in the admin account when you go into safe mode?

 

[Law]

There should be a build-in administrator account and at the very begining of installation you should had made another account in administrator group. Can you go into computer management in administrative tools?

 

[jowilker]

I bought the machine from a friend of mine that sell computers, he specked out the machine, because my P233 was struggling to keep up. I furnished him the software and he loaded it. We as suggested didn't run passwords. The machine is set for auto logon. I can not force the administrator to run in either safe mode or real time.

I used to have admin priviliges with my JW account, don't know why that stopped. I can change things outside of the program files, but am denied access for anything inside program files.

Law, I have tried to run recover console and have no password to enter and after the 3rd try, I'm out the door.

I tried to make one of those floppy boot disks and it says to put a disk in the A:\ whe there is one in there.

John

 

[Law]

Yea you do need the administrator password for recovery console...is there any ways that you can get into the control panel, administrative tools, computer management?

 

[jowilker]

Yes Sir, I can get in there, ......and look

John

 

[Law]

Ok go into local users and groups click on users. You should see accounts and the administrative. You could reset the password.

 

[jowilker]

Oh I can do all of that. Thing is, I can do it but when I click ok, I get this little error message

Access is denied.

John

 

[Law]

DAMMIT.....well I knew in my head it wouldn't let you anyways but just wanted to try. One last thing, can you use system restore.

Honestly, I think someone or something got into your computer administrative account and set a password on it and change you to the users account. So your current account is limited.

 

[jowilker]

Don't know, That is one thing that I have never tried.

What kinds of things could I expect to loose if I used it?

John