Why am I not surprised...UAC??

speedracer

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Just installed Vista Ultimate x64 and things seemed to be going ok until about an hour or so ago. Powered down to go out for a bit. Upon booting back up I get the login Icon (of which I am an administrator with password protect). I enter the password and I get into the computer. HOWEVER, whatever I click on - program, control panel, even to try and power down I get the following msg: "Windows cannot access the specified device,path or file you may not have the appropriate permissions to access this item." FUNNY, before I powered it down I could do all of this NOW I CAN'T. I clicked on the icon and it opened up another screen where I created another account and told it to make it an administrator with no pswd. Rebooted logged in using this account and still the same nonsense. HOW can I fix it to make it start working properly again????? I can't get the the UAC or control panel as it won't let me so I am in a circle??!! I had made a backup of the registry with ERUNT however, when I click on the program icon I get the above msg so I can't do the restore (in case its a registry problem). ANY HELP will be greatly appreciated..... THANKS!!
 

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If you can access this, open msconfig from run and click on the tools tab and scroll down to the bottom and select Disable UAC. Try that.

Hope that helps.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP
    CPU
    Core 2 Duo
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2
    Screen Resolution
    1280x800 ; 1440x900
    Hard Drives
    3
    160gb internal
    60gb external
    250gb external
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