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Suddenly lost administrative powers
Name: foreverloved Date: August 24, 2006 at 16:03:35 Pacific OS: windows xp home CPU/Ram: 512mb Product: custom built
Comment:
My desktop computer all of a sudden today started telling me things like "This was disabled by administrator" I have the only administrative account and i havent messed with any of the permissions I dont even know how. the ONLY thing that might be it is that I used the program Security Task Manager to quarantine the process msmsg.exe (msn messenger) because every time I looked in my task manager it was there using up my memory and i rarely use that messenger. I created a restore point before quarantining the file and I restored it, that didnt help I also uninstalled msn messenger and that didnt work so I dont know what to do now besides have to reformat, IF it will let me do that. It doesnt even let me log onto yahoo. Im on a laptop now. How can I fix it?
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: August 24, 2006 at 16:25:21 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried uninstalling security task manager?
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: August 24, 2006 at 17:29:17 Pacific
Reply:
If you meant to say that the Task Manager have been "disabled by administrator," it is a common bug with Windows. Go HERE for instruction to re-enable it by way of registry edit. Good luck.
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