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Posted by Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE on November 8, 2005, 8:27 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > I set myself up years ago as the system administrator on my home
> machine (running Windows Milennium). The other two accounts are my
> wife's and daughter's accounts. For some reason I do not seem to
> have system administrator privileges any more. For example, if I
> click on Tools-> Internet Options in Explorer (v6.0), I get a
> message saying: "This operation has been cancelled due to
> restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system
> administrator".
> I can to into "users" in the control panel to verify that there are
> no user besides the ones listed above. I have not found any way of
> verifying that am either setup as an administrator or not
> (incidentally, Windows XP that I have access to at work seems to
> have more menus under the "user" icon that allows one further
> insight).
>
> So I am stuck - how do I gain control, so I can, for example install
> the software that I want. I am running Norton viruschecker on the
> machine and have run
> Trendmicro Housecall scan recently. Also, the only thing thie home
> computer has been linked to was a wireless router where it shared to
> access to the internet with a laptop in the house (I used the "home
> (i.e. problem) machine" to install the router etc..., but the
> network was never setup so that other machines on the wireless
> network could access the "home machine" - at least that was the
> intention). Incidentally the wireless router blew up in a lighting
> storm and I can not go through the installation process of the new
> router until I solve this problem.
> Help,
> Oli
Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.
It is most likely (but not necessarily) to be here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions
You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
Panel".
See http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=6748
I believe Ad-Aware may now have a similar setting.
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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