You might try a chkdsk /f and a sfc /scannow, or even look at your system restore points, but I think you're going to have to restore from backup.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] HELP! Permissions problem > > I am running Vista 64 Home Premium. I was trying to remove an Adobe > file that would not delete. Unlocker doesn't come with 64 bit support > yet so I was forced to try and take ownership and get rid of it. I > never got that to work, but somewhere in the process I screwed up my > permissions so there are now lots of things "I don't have permission > to use" EVEN when logged in directly as THE Administrator. Under > users I have Administrator, I have my user with Administrator > privileges and it won't let me make any changes to that. I can't run > scans on drives, I can't use just about anything from the context > menu. I must of changed some permission and then cloned it to the > whole system. > > What did I do and how the hell do I fix it short of restoring a three > week old back up. > I really freaking hate UAC > thanks!
