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teday
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_ 		2. September 2009 @ 23:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I recently upgraded my hard drive, re-installed WINXP and have been re-installing my programs for the last 2 weeks. Suddenly I lost administrative privileges. I cant see but a few of my programs in the start menu,including the system tools, but I was able to do a restore by going through the help screens. Every thing looked normal until I re-booted again.
Is there a virus that does this or what? I really dont want to start over from scratch again. HELP!
Thanks n advance
T.Day
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teday
jony218
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_ 		3. September 2009 @ 00:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
just reset all your admin passwords using the free ntpasswd boot cd. That should get you back where you want to be.

I think your problem was caused by windows net framework software. I encountered it before and it is difficult to fix, but you should be able to work around it.
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ooZEROoo
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_ 		9. September 2009 @ 00:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sometimes a virus will revoke administrative privileges. Have you done a scan with Spybot? You can also run HijackThis and post the log back here.
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. September 2009 @ 00:53
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