Administrator privileges

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Henry

Even though I am logged in as administrator with
adminstrator privileges (as indicated un users and
passwords), programs I run complain that they can't update
the registry (to set configuration such as default mail
server, etc.). I did a regedt32 to attempt to set the
access mode for keys related to the applications which are
having registry access problems, but "security" is greyed
out. So I'm guessing that is not a registry problem,
but one of having less privileges than indicated and
configured. I am running W2K prof. with SP4. Any help or
suggestions appreciated!
 
Hi Henry-

If your local machine account is a member of the local Administrators group,
or if your domain one is, and you're still running into this it could
indicate a problem where the permissions on portions of (or all of) the
registry have been arbitrarily changed.

You could use a tool like SUBINACL.EXE (from the Resource Kit) to replace or
add permissions to selected registry keys. If the problem appears to
widespread-throughout large portions of the registry-it might be a better
idea to reset them from the default workstation template per the syntax
below:

"secedit /configure /DB secedit.sdb /CFG C:\winnt\inf\defltwk.inf /areas
regkeys /log secedit.log /verbose"

Keep in mind that this assumes you should have access to those keys, or in
other words that you have administrative membership on the local machine.
 
It worked, thanks Tim!!
Henry
-----Original Message-----
Hi Henry-

If your local machine account is a member of the local Administrators group,
or if your domain one is, and you're still running into this it could
indicate a problem where the permissions on portions of (or all of) the
registry have been arbitrarily changed.

You could use a tool like SUBINACL.EXE (from the Resource Kit) to replace or
add permissions to selected registry keys. If the problem appears to
widespread-throughout large portions of the registry-it might be a better
idea to reset them from the default workstation template per the syntax
below:

"secedit /configure /DB secedit.sdb /CFG
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C:\winnt\inf\defltwk.inf /areas
 
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