Pc Problems Help

[rodtrotter]

i dont want to sound like a dulard but iam have a problem with my pc when i try to run regedit or system restore it says it is disabled by your administrator there is only one user account on my pc can any one help me sort this out

[Youngjedi]

Go to the control panel and at the bottom, click on 'users'. check to see if there is a guest user. (default in Windows XP) if there is, you can disable it. and reboot as administrator. ****CHECK TO SEE IF THERE IS AN ADMIN PASSWORD! IF THERE IS, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET BACK IN UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT PASSWORD****

I hope this helps.

[rodtrotter]

there is a guest user but it is already turnd off

[Youngjedi]

This is what I found online for an answer to you problem:
Question...

"i cannot run regedit 'cos it's been disabled by 'adm'.
this's only a home network. i need to check the Run folder
in the Registry for virus.
how do i enable it. "

Answer...


"Open Notepad pad, copy paste the following text to the
note pad

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Policies\System]
"DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000000

Save the text file as any name u with extension .reg
example:- "enable.reg"
After that double click to run the file."


I have not tried this, but it is something I would try.

[rodtrotter]

thanks for you help but that will not work just says reg editing is disabled by your administrator bugger

[Youngjedi]

The next thing I would try is to put the file in the start up folder. It may fix the problem during boot up if the regedit is being blocked by a virus.

If you google the problem, You can find a lot of other people with this problem and several different possible solutions.

P.S. How about adding a user with full admin rights, then sign in under that user and get into the regedit?

[Lddrizzt]

It could be that the only account you see is not an administrator account.
If you boot the machine in safe mode, you will have the choice to log in as administrator.

[computer bob]

You should

i dont want to sound like a dulard but iam have a problem with my pc when i try to run regedit or system restore it says it is disabled by your administrator there is only one user account on my pc can any one help me sort this out

Unless somebody renamed or deleted it, you should be able to see a default "administrator" user if you first reboot the PC into Safe Mode and then go to the users control panel. Try to log in as "administrator" and see what happens.

[slotter]

As mentioned, a virus can prevent you from getting to msconfig and to regedit. Been there, done that.

[jc1444]

As Slotter says:
"As mentioned, a virus can prevent you from getting to msconfig and to regedit. Been there, done that. "

Oh sh*t I feel a reformat coming on
I hate it when that happens

[rodtrotter]

safe mode still will not let me restore even tried to do a windows fix it asked for pass word and it will not take the one i used to set it up with i think i have a virus it is now saying system32 scvhost.exe is missing looks like a full reinstall bugger it takes ages to get back to normal

[slotter]

You might try running one of the virus cleaners out there. Chances are you can get this cleaned up without a reformat. Here is a link for Vcleaner:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/downloads...g/us/tpl/tpl01

[rodtrotter]

still no joy iam just going to have to do the do and reinstall thanks for all youre help every one

[luckydog]

I had to do a full format on my old computer, i lost all my favorites and a lot of programs and downloads.

the only up side was it ran faster and I had more disk space left

[slotter]

If you haven't yet done so, try these two programs:

Download Ad-AwareSE

Download SpyBot

[computer bob]

safe mode still will not let me restore even tried to do a windows fix it asked for pass word and it will not take the one i used to set it up with i think i have a virus it is now saying system32 scvhost.exe is missing looks like a full reinstall bugger it takes ages to get back to normal

Were you able to log in as "administrator in Safe Mode? (Did the administrator "user" show up at login?) If that user appears, try logging in with no password.

[rodtrotter]

yes i was able to log in as administrator in Safe Mode but still no joy i have how done a full reinstall at this moment i am on installing all my programs the first thing i did was to add pachitalk back in to my favourites lol thanks for all your help guys

[fronzdan]

Oops, you could have saved all your favorite links before you started the reinstall along with other stuff. Hope it's not too painful for you to get it back where you want it.