Administrator rights.
My xp is professional 32-bit sp3. I have been doing a few downloads lately which mcafee asked me if I wanted to block certain items but I don't think that is the answer. I, for some reason, completely lost my administrator rights and I can't do anything on my p.c. at the moment.I have 25 driver updates to do but am unable access my rights.I think what I was doing at the time was making a new user a/c but with no privileges and that's when it seems to have gone wrong.For the past two days I have been looking everywhere in my p.c. and on the web for an answer and cannot find anything.Any brainy ones out there please as I am exhausted now!!!!!Please help. 1 person needs an answerI do too
December 8th, 2010 11:02am

My first reaction is that a System Restore should put you back to where you were..."How to restore Windows XP to a previous state" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084 >Unfortunately, you must have Admin privilege to do a System Restore. Secondly, I would try to boot into Safe Mode by pressing "F8" as the system boots up and try to log in as "Administrator". Unless the administrator password was changed, simply leaving it blank might get you logged back on long enough to do the System Restore.Lastly, if you can't log in as Administrator, then the next step would be to follow the procedure in this article:" How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 >...making sure that in Part 2 you choose a registry backup that was made before your problem. The steps in Part 1 can be a little risky because sometimes the Repair folder contains files so old they won't work with current software; therefore, I find it much easier and dependable to create a free Live Linux boot CD such as Knoppix or Ubuntu (using the "Try It" option) and boot my machine from that CD and then use Linux to copy the files as directed. If you do this, you can skip Part 1 and pick up the procedure at Part 2 step 6 and you won't have to reboot between Part 2 and 3. Linux is also not burdened by access restrictions placed on these files. This procedure is for the more experienced (or daring) individual.HTH, JW
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December 8th, 2010 4:51pm

O.k. WUNDERS thanks for your input - will try your suggestions. The Administrator did have a blank password so I might be lucky. Thanks again.
December 9th, 2010 7:31am

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