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Old 06-15-2008   #1 (permalink)
NDanielle


 
 

All Administrator Accounts have been changed to Standard Accounts

Hello All,
I recently started getting access denied errors to basic folders like
MyDocuments/My Pictures.

After some digging I realized that ALL my account, which were
Administrators, have been changed to Standard Accounts but they still show as
Administrator accounts at the login - but in Control Panel / Accounts they
say Standard.

I enabled the System Administrator account at the command prompt and I can
work from that - however even in the system administrator account I cannot
change the 'standard users' back to administrator.

1. I assume some major corruption happend
OR
2. A virus got to me?

I checked the event viewer to see if anything happend but can't decipher
anything major that went on.

Questions:
1. How would this happen (I've seen many posts where this has occurred) -
what's the root to this problem.

2. If you disable UAC does that change everyone to Standard? That would be
silly but it could be.

3. Dang - this sucks - but rock on Vista!

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I do not need a fix other than how to change stuff back so I don't have to
go moving a ton of files around.

Thanks Much!
Nicole

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