My Windows account do not have administrator priviliges anymore

[Marcus]

Hi,

My Windows account do not have administrator priviliges anymore even
though the user account window accessible from the control panel claims
I do.

I did my first time programming with setting ACL:s. I thought I had
completed my application since it seemed to work fine setting the ACL:s
the way I wanted to.

Then I had a huge problem one day all of a sudden. My laptop claimed I
did not have DotNet 2.0 installed (even though I have, I can even see
it in the add/remove programs list).

I went into Windows explorer and clicked on the c:/Windows folder. The
Microsoft.NET folder existed but it had no + sign indicating
subfolders. When clicking on it it I get a not available, access denied
kind of message.

I am not able (or allowed maybe) to install, repair or remove DotNet
2.0.

I went to "Windows Update" on the Web to download updates for my OS
(Win XP pro SP2 by the way) but there I got the message that I have to
have administrator priviligies to update Windows.

The very same thing happened a couple of weeks later on my other
computer (this one I am using right now, I guess I will format this one
tonight...)

Can it be my application messing my system up?

All I do is set some files (application specific) (full rights except
delete) for all Windows accounts. My application is written in c# and
depends on DotNet 2.0. The methods I use for setting ACL's are:
AddAccessRule, RemoveAccessRul e, SetAccessContro l.

During the developement of this application (about a year) I have NOT
had this problems earlier. I got them after trying setting ACL's. One
other thing I have done recently is adding dotnet2.0 and windows
installer 3.1 as prerequisites in my VS2005 setup project (could this
be the source of my problem?).

I guess these methods have been used plenty and also VS2005 setup
project has been tested very much. When I got the problems on the first
computer I thought, well a case of bad luck... but when I got it again
on another computer I begin to wonder. I have tested for viruses - none
found.

[Ciaran O''Donnell]

Right click on the framework folder and go to properties, security, advanced
(button), Owner. take ownership of it. then you can add permissions to it. It
has probably lost the ACL allowing admins access but Owners alsways have
access to change permissions.

Ciaran O'Donnell
"Marcus" wrote:

Hi,

My Windows account do not have administrator priviliges anymore even
though the user account window accessible from the control panel claims
I do.

I did my first time programming with setting ACL:s. I thought I had
completed my application since it seemed to work fine setting the ACL:s
the way I wanted to.

Then I had a huge problem one day all of a sudden. My laptop claimed I
did not have DotNet 2.0 installed (even though I have, I can even see
it in the add/remove programs list).

I went into Windows explorer and clicked on the c:/Windows folder. The
Microsoft.NET folder existed but it had no + sign indicating
subfolders. When clicking on it it I get a not available, access denied
kind of message.

I am not able (or allowed maybe) to install, repair or remove DotNet
2.0.

I went to "Windows Update" on the Web to download updates for my OS
(Win XP pro SP2 by the way) but there I got the message that I have to
have administrator priviligies to update Windows.

The very same thing happened a couple of weeks later on my other
computer (this one I am using right now, I guess I will format this one
tonight...)

Can it be my application messing my system up?

All I do is set some files (application specific) (full rights except
delete) for all Windows accounts. My application is written in c# and
depends on DotNet 2.0. The methods I use for setting ACL's are:
AddAccessRule, RemoveAccessRul e, SetAccessContro l.

During the developement of this application (about a year) I have NOT
had this problems earlier. I got them after trying setting ACL's. One
other thing I have done recently is adding dotnet2.0 and windows
installer 3.1 as prerequisites in my VS2005 setup project (could this
be the source of my problem?).

I guess these methods have been used plenty and also VS2005 setup
project has been tested very much. When I got the problems on the first
computer I thought, well a case of bad luck... but when I got it again
on another computer I begin to wonder. I have tested for viruses - none
found.