Security BOOBOO

Hi. I need help badly. I was playing around with the security as an admin. On the part were you allow access, i accidentally selected wherein the user has control of everything. in the middle of the change i clicked on cancel and just cancelled all the things i have done. i am the admin on the laptop and now i cant even access my drive c wherein it says restricted. i would try to take ownership but it does not allow me. the window i also have open for ie 8 would go out for some sites and i am not able to open them, it would continoiusly try to reconnect to the same site with no avail. i need help please. very badly. i would like to know what steps i can do to reverse the major booboo i did....HELP PLEASE

Hey.

You can use system restore to a point from before you did this.

If you don't have any restore points, then you can follow this.

Tews said:

Try doing a system restore to a point before you messed it up...

Another example of why not to use an administrator account for every day use..

i have tried system restore but getting---context : restricted

If running system restore as an admin account doesn't work, then performing a repair install from the link I posted is the best way to go.

torrentg said:

Hey.

You can use system restore to a point from before you did this.

If you don't have any restore points, then you can follow this.

it wont allow me access to my dvd drive

Do a clean install but formatting is not necessary. If you don't format, it will put everything existing on the drive in to a Windows.old folder at root.

If you have nothing you want to keep on the drive, then formatting would be best.

Once to new desktop, you can copy/paste whatever you want out of there. Then use disk cleanup to remove Windows.old.

torrentg said:

If running system restore as an admin account doesn't work, then performing a repair install from the link I posted is the best way to go.

exact error i am getting---windows cannot access specified device, path, or file. you may not have appropriate permissions to access the item

Haring Dagta said:

torrentg said:

If running system restore as an admin account doesn't work, then performing a repair install from the link I posted is the best way to go.

exact error i am getting---windows cannot access specified device, path, or file. you may not have appropriate permissions to access the item

See if you can create a new user account with administrator privileges. If you can, then you can run a repair install by using that. If not, follow my last post.