Re: use of multiple browsers with win2k/winserver2K

When I installed the browsers, I did have admin privileges.  One day, after
leaving my puter defragging, they were gone.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen Anderson" <kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com>
To: "Lady Wistfulee" <ladywist(at)bellsouth.net>; <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
Cc: "hwg-servers" <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: use of multiple browsers with win2k/winserver2K


> Lady:
> I don't know if this will help your current situation, but you may want to
> file it away for future use:
> T I P W O R L D
> http://www.topica.com/tipworld
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> B U G   O F   T H E   D A Y
>
> ===============================================================
> TODAY'S TIP: NETSCAPE 6 VERSUS WINDOWS 2000/NT
>
> by Paul Dmytrewycz
>
> When installing Netscape 6 on a Windows NT or 2000 computer, make sure
> you have Administrator privileges. Otherwise you will receive the
> following message during installation: "Error 5." No further
> explanation is provided after the error message, causing no small
> amount of confusion. Users who have already tried installation and
> have been frustrated by this error are urged to try again with
> Administrator privileges. There should be no problems thereafter.
>
>
>
> ~ Kathleen Anderson
> Spider Web Woman Designs
> http://www.spiderwebwoman.com
> email: kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lady Wistfulee" <ladywist(at)bellsouth.net>
> To: <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
> Cc: "hwg-servers" <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: February 25, 2001 3:05 PM
> Subject: use of multiple browsers with win2k/winserver2K
>
>
> > Hi O learned ones...
> > (My apologies for a cross post, but I didn't know which list this
fit...it
> > kind of fits both).
> >
> > I had a horrible "accident" on my machine last week, that caused me to
> lose
> > my admin rights on my machine...which resulted in a horrible destruction
> of
> > my machine's capabilities.  My machine is running Win2K Pro, came that
way
> > from Gateway.  Our company just made the move to win2k at the end of
last
> > year & are also making the move to Winserver 2000 at the same time, but
> the
> > techs aren't familiar with it so no one knows how this happened.  I was
> told
> > by a tech at work that Netscape version 4 does not support Win2K,
> according
> > to Netscape, but I can't find where it says so on their site, another
tech
> > told me Win2K can't have multiple browsers. I obviously need more than
one
> > browser on my machine,  (I had NN4.08, 6.0, IE5.5 & Opera 5 for about 2
> > months  when this all happened).
> >
> > Last Thursday I left my computer defragging at work, & when I came back
to
> > it hours later (OK it was the next morning) somehow I had lost all
> > administrator privileges for my puter--I didn't know it, just couldn't
> > login. It was locked (the ctrl-alt-del-choose lock computer way).  There
> was
> > a bent (broken) network cable (it looked like someone had stepped on
it),
> &
> > after it was replaced I was able to login (with my ID & password). Later
> on
> > in the day, not knowing I had lost my privileges, I did a Windows
security
> > update (I had gotten a critical update notification).  After rebooting,
I
> > couldn't login.  My administrative rights had disappeared, my machine
had
> > disappeared from the network, & there were corrupted files, primarily
> > something like nmc.exe. They couldn't find my machine on the network
> before,
> > but replacing the cable seemed to work for me to login.  They said that
> when
> > I had done the security update without admin privileges that the machine
> was
> > trying to find the administrator, & without one it corrupted files.
The
> > techs decided my machine had to be what they call "re-imaged".  I lost
all
> > administrative rights for my computer permanently as a result, & now
have
> to
> > make a support call to install the simplest of programs.  I can't even
> look
> > at my computer's calendar (the one via the systray clock). What could
have
> > caused this?  Is there a bug in win2k as to having multiple browsers, or
> the
> > defragging...how do you lose admin rights like that?
> >
> > It'll be years before I am "trusted" again at work, even though I didn't
> do
> > anything out of the ordinary (a defrag & a Windows Update only), but I
> still
> > want to understand how this happened to me.
> >
> > many thanks in advance,
> > Lady Wistfulee
> >
> >
>
>

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