Elijames Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I'm the administrator on my compuetr. I had a virus on my laptop that Webroot removed. When I click on system restore, it says I don't have sifficient security privileges to run this tool. How can I get access to system restore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted July 21, 2010 Administrator Share Posted July 21, 2010 After a bit of searching, you can repair your permissions by doing this command: To restore your operating system to the original installation default security settings, follow these steps: Click Start > Run > type cmd and press Enter or click Ok. Windows XP: In the command prompt enter: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose Windows Vista/7: In the command prompt enter: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose You receive a "Task is completed" message and a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this message. For more information about this message, see the %windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elijames Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 It came back with : secedit is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted July 21, 2010 Administrator Share Posted July 21, 2010 Check this link then. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313222 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elijames Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 At the bottom of the link it said For online "Help about Secedit, click Start, click Run, type %windir%\help\secedit.chm, and then press ENTER." It came back that windows could not find Secedit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted July 21, 2010 Administrator Share Posted July 21, 2010 You can either get it from this download link or from your Windows install cd. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/tools/SCM/SCESP4I.EXE Put your Windows Install cd in and run these commands: expand X:\i386\secedit.ex_ c:\windows\system32\secedit.exe expand X:\i386\secedit.ch_ c:\windows\help\secedit.chm Replace X with your CD drive letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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