Yes - I enabled the System Administrator account at the command prompt and
working from that. I didn't try to create another Admin account - I'll try
that - good t-shooting idea LeftFoot!
PS - you are bright.
"LeftFoot" wrote:
Quote:
> It seems to be pretty common that turning off UAC and doing other things to
> make Vista more XP-like can lead to some pretty strange issues. I have no
> idea whether or not seeing all of your admin accounts become standard
> accounts is related to that.
>
> You said that you can't change them back to admin status from the built-in
> admin account, but you didn't specify whether or not you could create another
> (new) admin account.
>
> I was also curious as to whether or not you have used the group policy
> editor on this system.
>
> I'll try to be helpful, but don't get your hopes up. I'm more curious than
> bright.
>
> 
>
> "NDanielle" wrote:
> Quote:
> > 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
> >