AndyT Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I have tried to tune the start up phase through msconfig and get the message "An access denied error has occured you may need to log on using an admistrator account" I am the only account and administrator. How can I get it to behave please? Many thanks in advance people. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I ahve tried to tune the start up phase through msconfig and get the message "An access denied error has occured you may need to log on using an admistrator account" I am the only account and administrator. How can I get it to behave please? Many thanks in advance people. Andy Dont you just go msconfig=startup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Dont you just go msconfig=startup? Yup. When I'm trying to config it flashes the message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Is this in vista? If so click on the start, type in msconfig and when it comes up in the little search bit right click on it and click "run as administrator" or something like that. If not, don't know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Is this in vista? If so click on the start, type in msconfig and when it comes up in the little search bit right click on it and click "run as administrator" or something like that. If not, don't know Oops sorry Scotster XP Pro. Haven't tried the run as admin though. Will do it now. Cheers bud. Edit: Nope right click doesn't work bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 If its Vista, you may want to turn off UAC. Can't remember how I did that, google will tell you. MS stops you doing admin stuff even if you say you are admin, damm annoying. Edit...too slow! Not sure then sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASHTHEBISHOP Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 go into the user accounts bit of the control panel and make sure your account is listed as 'administrator' Then try msconfig again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Oops sorry Scotster XP Pro. Haven't tried the run as admin though. Will do it now. Cheers bud. Edit: Nope right click doesn't work bud. Sounds a bit iffy then buddy. Possibly a corrupt file. This is going to be a bit complicated and even harder to describe as i'm at work on a different OS but here goes... Open control panel, go to administrative tools, computer management, local users, users, right click on "administrator", click properties, make sure "account is disabled" is unticked then... If it was disabled, hopefully it won't have a password, log off and try logging on as administrator with no password. If it has a password try to change it using the users and groups option in control panel then try to log on as administrator Hope that helps a little, i can't really remember everything exactly as i am a Vista man now lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 go into the user accounts bit of the control panel and make sure your account is listed as 'administrator' Then try msconfig again Listed as admin mate. Set up another account, just to test, and the same thing. Confusion reigns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Google found this (backup your registry first!): The permissions under the following registry need to be reset: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetup 1. Run regedt32 2. Navigate to the key 3. Click on Security and then Permissions and make sure the following accounts have the correct permissions: Administrators | Full Control | This key and subkeys Power Users | Full Control | This key and subkeys System | Full Control | This key and subkeys Users | Read | This key and subkeys The only other suggestions I could find were to run the XP repair from the CD - apparantly its a bug that appears occasionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Sudo msconfig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Sudo msconfig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Sounds a bit iffy then buddy. Possibly a corrupt file. This is going to be a bit complicated and even harder to describe as i'm at work on a different OS but here goes... Open control panel, go to administrative tools, computer management, local users, users, right click on "administrator", click properties, make sure "account is disabled" is unticked then... If it was disabled, hopefully it won't have a password, log off and try logging on as administrator with no password. If it has a password try to change it using the users and groups option in control panel then try to log on as administrator Hope that helps a little, i can't really remember everything exactly as i am a Vista man now lol. Was unticked bud. No luck there. thanks for trying mate. Google found this (backup your registry first!): The permissions under the following registry need to be reset: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetup 1. Run regedt32 2. Navigate to the key 3. Click on Security and then Permissions and make sure the following accounts have the correct permissions: Administrators | Full Control | This key and subkeys Power Users | Full Control | This key and subkeys System | Full Control | This key and subkeys Users | Read | This key and subkeys The only other suggestions I could find were to run the XP repair from the CD - apparantly its a bug that appears occasionally. Hmm this what is shown bud. under name it has (default) Under Type it has Reg_SZ. Under data it has (Value not set) Lost now bud. Thanks for the input. Edit. Sorry Ozz didn't get to the right place then. Navigated to Setup and couldn't find security or permissions under any drop downs. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Sudo msconfig :)eh. Over me head chaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Sudo msconfig The farce is strong in this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 The farce is strong in this one Oi ... :) Still none the wiser. I'm gonna google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 When you first get the login screen... hit ctrl-alt-del and you will get the old classic login.. Login as administrator (hope you rememeber what you set the password to ) Then do the usual stuff through the control panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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