Vista - Plz help!!

bradgar · 05-03-2009

Ok in a lump sum just want to say thanks to any and all that attempt to provide me with help just incase I dont later!

The other day my computer was just fine. I opened a guest account so my roommate could play CoD while I wasn't home. I tried to lock him out of all the files so he wouldn't screw anything up. Wasn't sure how to do it so played with account rights a little. Thought I turned everything back to normal.

Now on my account which has admin rights now cannot load about the first 4-5 programs that are in order when I open my program files, which are like bearshare, CoD, activision, and another.

All it says is I was denied and may not have the appropriate account privelages, yadda yadda. So I right click on the folder and goto properties:security: and try to set the accounts listed as full control thinking that was the problem since I messed with those. But still nothing.

I log into the guest account and can do everything just fine other then admin rights to certain things. Like access the programs that I can't with my account, hence playing CoD.

I've tried a system restore and that failed. I've tried to take over ownership with right clicking:properties:security:advanced:ownership/rights(not sure what its called at the moment). That still doesn't work when I log in as administrator. I can't run the programs as administrator either.

Any help please!? I'm dead in the water!

**rive0108** · 05-04-2009

Somehow you either changed the User Permissions, or corrupted it.

Try a system restore in Vista recovery RE (boot into Vista disk, and select repair, then system restore)

You can try to activate the hidden Admin accout and create another User:Admin Account, or if that fails, try a repair, or full re-install of Vista.
System Restore - How to (see boot option)
Administrator Account
User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile (see step two-Delete the corrupted User account profile)
Repair Install For Vista

bradgar · 05-04-2009

ouch that would be costly. I have gotten CoD to run now but lost all my saved content. I had to open the folder and reclaim the ownership back to administrators individually to each file in each folder for it to run properly. and along with that I had to select each individual file and set up the user rights for each account. HEH took like 3 hours to do it all, plus now i have about 4 more programs to do that to.

and I tried the system restore, it failed, before I wrote this thread I tried it. so that was of no help.

if anyone has anything that would make this easier then individually doing each file plz let me know.

thanks again!

05-03-2009	#1 (permalink)
bradgar Vista Ultimate x64 2 posts	Plz help!! Ok in a lump sum just want to say thanks to any and all that attempt to provide me with help just incase I dont later! The other day my computer was just fine. I opened a guest account so my roommate could play CoD while I wasn't home. I tried to lock him out of all the files so he wouldn't screw anything up. Wasn't sure how to do it so played with account rights a little. Thought I turned everything back to normal. Now on my account which has admin rights now cannot load about the first 4-5 programs that are in order when I open my program files, which are like bearshare, CoD, activision, and another. All it says is I was denied and may not have the appropriate account privelages, yadda yadda. So I right click on the folder and goto properties:security: and try to set the accounts listed as full control thinking that was the problem since I messed with those. But still nothing. I log into the guest account and can do everything just fine other then admin rights to certain things. Like access the programs that I can't with my account, hence playing CoD. I've tried a system restore and that failed. I've tried to take over ownership with right clicking:properties:security:advanced:ownership/rights(not sure what its called at the moment). That still doesn't work when I log in as administrator. I can't run the programs as administrator either. Any help please!? I'm dead in the water!
My System Specs

05-04-2009	#2 (permalink)
rive0108 Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 2,073 posts	Re: Plz help!! Somehow you either changed the User Permissions, or corrupted it. Try a system restore in Vista recovery RE (boot into Vista disk, and select repair, then system restore) You can try to activate the hidden Admin accout and create another User:Admin Account, or if that fails, try a repair, or full re-install of Vista. System Restore - How to (see boot option) Administrator Account User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile (see step two-Delete the corrupted User account profile) Repair Install For Vista
My System Specs

05-04-2009	#3 (permalink)
bradgar Vista Ultimate x64 2 posts	Re: Plz help!! ouch that would be costly. I have gotten CoD to run now but lost all my saved content. I had to open the folder and reclaim the ownership back to administrators individually to each file in each folder for it to run properly. and along with that I had to select each individual file and set up the user rights for each account. HEH took like 3 hours to do it all, plus now i have about 4 more programs to do that to. and I tried the system restore, it failed, before I wrote this thread I tried it. so that was of no help. if anyone has anything that would make this easier then individually doing each file plz let me know. thanks again!
My System Specs