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    MS Config issue Help!

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    by mcpeters2 ·

    When I try to run MSCONFIG I get a message that I need to log on as the administrator. This is my home computer and there are two active log on profiles (owner/administrator). They both have administrator privilages. My computer is running very slow. I called HP and they say that it is a new virus and they will get back to me. Help!

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    • #2532858

      Clarifications

      by mcpeters2 ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      Clarifications

    • #2532836

      MS Config / administrator issue

      by bshaw400 ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      Are you logged on with both profiles? That would really slow your box down for sure. Log off your user session and then go back and log on using the admin logon. If you didn’t logon with both profiles (accidentally, I hope), turn off the machine, physically disconnect your machine from your network, and try to log on as administrator.
      I hope you DO have an admin account setup on that machine. If not, maybe you’ve been hacked.

    • #2532832

      Safe mode

      by minhajlk ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      Try booting the system to safe mode and run the msconfig, do the necessary changes and re-start as a user/admin.

      good luck.

      • #2532657

        safe mode

        by mcpeters2 ·

        In reply to Safe mode

        I tried to boot up in safe mode and was denied. Same error message. This is my home computer and it doesn’t even ask me for a password for owner or administrator. Looking at the profiles on safe mode, they both have administrator privilages.

        • #2526189

          Administrator issues

          by highreachst ·

          In reply to safe mode

          My pc suddenly developed the same issue and I am not able to resolve the problem. I came to this website after a google search, and seeing that your query is so recent, I had a hope you had a reply that was timely. If you figure out how to deal with this issue, would you be so kind as to send me an e-mail telling me what to do? I would appreciate it. I have done thorough scans (virus,registry etc),and nothing raises any flags to point to this issue. I wonder what changed?

    • #2619974

      anybody find an answer?

      by rbrshaw ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      i am having the same problem. any solutions???

    • #2619970

      Just a silly little Question here…

      by dawgit ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      What is the OS that you’re useing?
      MS-What? -d

      • #2619968

        What exactly do you want to do in MSconfig?

        by midnightstorm ·

        In reply to Just a silly little Question here…

        Hi there

        What exactly would you like to change in the registry?
        I found a program a little while ago called “AutoRuns” on a obscure little website. I downloaded it and it lets you tweak the registry a little.

        If you would like to try it find it on google or I can email it to you.

        THanks
        MS

    • #2618571

      Check this

      by vsharma ·

      In reply to MS Config issue Help!

      first of all do 1thing make a new user and give it privilages of admin then check it wheather u r enable to run msconfig or not
      if not then it means us computer is infected with virus

      • #2511993

        I found an interesting possible solution

        by trevor ·

        In reply to Check this

        Having experienced this problem after cleaning a *seriously* infected computer, I thought I was doomed to a total reformat and re-install.
        Stubborn as I am (the issue became very personal) I did lots of googling.
        Having a HP printer in my network, and noticing a significant number of support programs installed in my system for this device (just for one printer Mr HP????), I found the following post very interesting:
        http://forums.pcpitstop.com/lofiversion/index.php/t129186.html
        When I modified the registry and services as suggested – regarding the Pml Driver HPZ12 **ALL MY PROBLEMS WENT AWAY**
        Note: The only program I uninstalled was the HP AutoUpdater!!
        I am now very wary of ANY HP software or traces of same in any of my systems.
        All the time tearing my hair out thinking that I had the mother-of-all virus/trojan/rootkit infections, it was only a rather *STUPID* HP driver/service issue.

        Thankyou to the author of that post I found, and I hope you guys’n’gals out there with this problem can find some solutions in this one.

        • #2471157

          HP

          by xavier.hexon ·

          In reply to I found an interesting possible solution

          Yes! Its been happening to me since March, 2007, immediately after an HP Update (my HP support expired Jan. 2007, of course). The error also occurrs when logged in under “Administrator” in “Safe Mode”. It still accepts any re-configuration once you’ve clicked apply & restart, But the “MSConfig-Administration-Popup-Error” has worked my last nerve. Any solution? I am determined to find out before this day is over!

          ~X

          Ps: I use to build my own PC’s when Builing your own PC was cheaper than buying a new PC at Costco/Sams, remember? Well, Not Anymore. HP is easily & cheaply upgradeable, hp-printer cartridges are cheap, and the System Software is “Idiot-Proof”, so HP is my first Brand-Name-PC. Now I’m beginning to wonder if its also easily …disposable.

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