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Old 10-19-2007   #7 (permalink)
Brian


 
 

Re: Permissions problem

Frank-

What registry key values are you modifying to get your Kodak Eastshare 5500
printer to work? I bought the 5100 a few months ago and it refuses to work
with 64-bit Vista. Kodak tech support is virtually non-existent.


Thanks.
Brian

"Frank M. Greco" wrote:
Quote:

> O.K., solved part of the problem. I clicked on START, and in the "START
> SEARCH" area, I typed cmd. I opened cmd with admin rights (right click
> cmd and click RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR). At the command prompt, I typed:
>
> net user administration /active:yes
>
> I then restarted the computer. Once rebooted, I had access to the real
> admin account, and cleared out enough of the registry entries so that I
> could reinstall almost all of the Kodak Easyshare 5500 program and all
> the drivers (I could not remove a handful of registry values (access
> denied, which I found interesting since I thought I should have been
> able to remove them), but at least I got the drivers installed so I
> could use the printer. Once finished, I rebooted and entered my regular
> account, went back to the command prompt and typed:
>
> net user administration /active:no
>
> to close out the real admin account. Not a perfect solution, but it
> seemed to work.
>
> Frank
>
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