Comments on: Running a CMD prompt as System (XP and Vista)

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:53:38 +0000

Thank you! Despite using “Run as admin”, my cmd kept just running as the local user… so this fixed the problem. Cheers

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How to reset Windows Service SDDL ACL | A Simple Man, A Complex Mind — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:50:52 +0000

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How to reset Windows Service SDDL ACL | A Simple Man, A Complex Mind — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:44:05 +0000

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By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:27 +0000

Andy,
I have been aware of that method. Sherry links to the same method above. However I just confirmed that this method does not work in Windows 7. It opens up a command prompt, but if you run the command “whoami” it will show that the command prompt is running as the currently logged on user account.

By: andy

andy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:15:17 +0000

i just discovered how to run CMD window as system in Vista, without the need for third party software. just simply cover the same proceedure as above for XP, bu this time using the following command in vista:

schtasks /create /SC ONCE /TN CMD /TR “CMD” /ST HH:MM

where HH:MM is the time you want cmd to launch.

By: Jim Lang

Jim Lang — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:15:57 +0000

Many Thanks. I’d like to drop a plug for some of the poor souls searching for
“Error Accessing OLE Registry” and “VB6″. Maybe even Crystal Reports (8.x) as the CR8 install sometimes boogers up the registry and windows 7/Vista users NEED this to run scr8_webregfix.exe (available somewhere else….)

Thanks again.
Jim.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:19:31 +0000

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By: Aaron Guilmette

Aaron Guilmette — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:20:45 +0000

As long as you have an account with administrative priviliges, you should be able to take ownership of anything. To apply the correct security, you may be able to run the Security Configuration Wizard and import the low-security template, C:\Windows\Security\templates\compatws.inf. That should reset most of the security settings back to their defaults.

By: shyam

shyam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:51:17 +0000

thank you .
it was very helpful to me , finally i was able to delete some undeletable files

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:45:22 +0000

If I understand your problem correctly, you did something to remove all permissions from some folders on your computer…including system. If that is the case, you are limited in what you can do. What account does have permission on the folder? Logged in as an account that does have permission, you can take ownership of the folder, and then add other accounts (such as system) back in.

One possible option would be to use the System Restore functionality to restore back to a previous state. I’m honestly not sure if that will restore permissions or not, but it’s worth a shot.

If you somehow completely removed all permissions from a folder, then as far as I know you have one option…a new install. Sorry.

Let me know if I misunderstood or if any of the above was helpful.