-=PCTechTalk=- Re: system restore problem

well I'm supposedly the 'administrator' but scheduled tasks doesn't seem to 
think so :-(  I left the guest turned off as  you advised - Dolores
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <rdulaneyjr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:02 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: system restore problem


> Go to Control Panel
>  Open User Accounts
>  Choose “Change an account”
>  Choose your account (what ever you have the name as)
>  Choose “Change Account Type”  this will tell you what type of account you 
> have
>
> NO DO NOT DELETE the guest account just leave it off.
> Dolores <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  I should have administrator rights 
> but maybe that's the problem and the
> reformat messed a setting up - how do I check that? Yes I have a Compaq
> (HP) Presario 3100+ Dolores
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> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:21 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: system restore problem
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>>
>> Hello Dolores
>>
>> Am I to assume you have administrator rights?
>> This version of XP is what SP?
>> and more for curiosity sake you have an HP model . . .?
>>
>>
>> Dolores wrote:
>> I've tried to ignore the problem but now it's bugging me again. I'm
>> running
>> XP and had to do 3 reformats (don't even ask me why because it was a
>> nighmare) recently. I am the only one who uses this computer so no other
>> users with passwords and I don't use a password. Everything worked fine
>> except the system restore which was part of the reason I had to do the
>> reformats. When I try to schedule a task I get an error saying that I
>> don't
>> have permission. When I contact HP via webchat she told me I had to put 
>> in
>> a password for my user name (didn't have one before!) and we walked
>> through
>> it and it seemed to work. Well it didn't. I had it set to do a system
>> restore in the middle of the night and when I woke up all I saw was that
>> system restore was opened but did not perform the task. The password 
>> thing
>> was a royal pain every time I rebooted so took it out since it didn't
>> solve
>> the problem. I tried googling the error message but the results basically
>> said I needed to make sure I had 'permission' to set a task. I would 
>> think
>> since it's my computer and only mine I should have permission. I can do a
>> manual system restore which I try to remember to do every night but that
>> is
>> a pain in the you know what. Sure would appreciate a solution to this
>> problem. Thanks. Dolores
>>
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