Oh dear....

I picked up a second hand laptop.... Its great but the guy who set it up has a LOT of functions turned off, like at work. UNINSTALL program etc.... He also has my tcp/ip properties locked and I can't undate them to log in to my dial up from the road.

A little help would be very very cool on what switch to flip...

I'm logged in as as an admin


Did you get a WIndows CD to reinstall, if needed? Is he available to "fix it"? What version of Windows?

(You will need a real Windows CD eventually, you know.)I'm trying to track down the cd...

Its windows 2000 service pack 4. I hads to install all the service packs. Its a government SURPLUS PC so it came with a wiped hard drive that was reformated and win 2000 reinstalled.

All was well until I tried to install a usb network card. It must of changed a setting. Very select stuff I want to access such as ppp settings and DNS settings are locked.


Any other solutions.

Oh yeah its a P3 600 Compaq Armada e5000. I'd keep hunting a Win2KCD as you can do a non-destructive rebuild keeping all your data...
But in the meantime here is the default listing of default services and their settings...

Here

patio 8-)Got the CD from the guy I got the laptop from, did thje rebuild but no luck its still locked...


TCP/IP properies not accessable.

Any ideas? If you did a clean re-install of the OS this shouldn't be happening.
All Admin stuff goes out the window when this is done.
How did you PROCEED with this re-install ? ? ?THANKS I finally got it working after 2-3 reboots and deleting the old dialers...


Now I'm battling USB network cards... I guess the win sp 4 drivers don't get alone with the D LInk USB network card. Error code 31? I hate that Yellow sign beside the device manager!

Any idea if there is a patch to help with thisQuote

Thanks I finally got it working after 2-3 reboots and deleting the old dialers...


Now I'm battling USB network cards... I guess the win sp 4 drivers don't get alone with the D LInk USB network card. Error code 31? I hate that Yellow sign beside the device manager!

Any idea if there is a patch to help with this