My user accounts now have very limited rights

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Alex Coleman

XP Pro/SP1. I sign on via an administrator account. I have no
problems.

User accounts have problems. Even brand new user accounts.

They can not delete Word documents which they has just
created and saved to their desktop. When they press DELETE or
uses Delete in the context menu, the eggtimer appears briefly
and then ... nothing. Nor can they rename these Word files.

With other types of file (.XLS or .TXT or .ZIP) on the desktop
they can rename them but not delete them. They can copy and paste
files on his desktop but they can not do this in their user's data
folder.

Only two or three tabs are visible in the Properties dispay of
icons on the desktop for documents.

I can't work out what might be causing this. There is no process
running which I can see is the culprit. Maybe I installed
something and it changed the settings and then I uninstalled it?

Do any of you specialists know where I might look and what
settings might be affected?

Is there a something which needs resetting on the system?


Thank you.
Zak

BTW - I recently had to reinstall Office 2000 because Excel was
messed up. I had to use the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
because Add/Remove had a glitch with MS Office. I can't say if
this is related as my uses his account only occassionally..
 
Hi

Does this happens only to files created by MS Office or in general. I
saw you mentioned .TXT and .ZIP, but what about files from other
programs you have? What can you say about security permissions of your
accounts, do you have only Read permissions or all the permissions,
like Modify, Write. Open Windows Explorer and right click on the hdd.
Go to Properties, on the next window go to Security. Where it says
Group or Usernames click on ADMINISTRATORS
(name_of_your_computer\Administrators) {in my case is
Atdheu\Administrators}, after you have highlited it, check the security
permissions there, all the permissions must be checked to Allow (except
special permission).


Best

P.S.
Try to update your service pack to SP2, here is the link for the SP2
for Pros:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
 
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