Re: Puzzled
- From: "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:01:24 +0000 (UTC)
"Andy B" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Synapse Syndrome wrote:
>
>>
>> "Andy B" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dc0ctd$g49>>
>>>> Are you using Pro in a user account?
>>>>
>>>> ss.
>>> I using Pro with the administrator account
>>>
>>
>>
>> It's possible that SYSTEM hasn't got write permissions for the registry
>> key
>> that needs to be written here. But it could only have got into that
>> state
>> due to corruption, so it's unlikely. It happens often with user accounts
>> and installed apps.
>>
>> ss.
>
>
> By system do you mean windows it self or a file of some kind?
> i did try creating a new admin.account when it first happened but that had
> the same outcome.
>
> Not tried to create one since i installed the Service Pack so i will try
> that to see if now works!
>
> I have assumed that the settings are stored in the reg?
>
If you right click entries in the left pane of regedit you'll see that they
have Permissions, just like files and folders do. Maybe SYSTEM hasn't got
permission to write to whatever key involved here, but it's just a guess.
I've seen this happen with a few apps that don't stick to their settings,
but that was with user permissions. Not SYSTEM persmissions on Windows
settings.
ss.
.
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