Re: My Win2000 power user broke when I installed Oracle

<dold_at_79.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:aj125k$ri1$1_at_samba.rahul.net...
> I have a Win2000 laptop that was connected to a company network.
> I log in as the user cdold on the domain "corp", even though I am no
> longer connected to the network. There is no "local" user cdold.
>
> cdold was a "power user" and could do most things, including adding
> software. Recently, I added Oracle 8.1.7... It's all been bad since
> then ;-( Oracle wouldn't install as cdold, I had to log off, and log in
> as the local administrator. After that, several other programs wouldn't
> run, because cdold couldn't modify the registry. I can't add/remove
> hardware, or do othre configurations within programs that cause
> modifications of the registry, which I used to be able to do before
Oracle.
>
> I don't want to be "adminstrator".
>
> Is there some permissions setting that I can change?
> I looked at "My Computer - Manage - Users and groups". I can't add
> corp\cdold to the power-user group. I see a power user S-1-5-..... which
> I'm afraid was "cdold" before the Oracle installation.
> I see that the power user ends in -500, where the registry HKEY_USERS has
> an entry for S-1-5...-4394. with the rest being the same.
>
> I suppose I'm going to have to reload Win2000, or create a power user
> called cdold locally, and copy all of corp\cdold's stuff. I expect that
> would be a mess.
>
> --
> ---
> Clarence A Dold - dold_at_email.rahul.net
> - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.

I would recommend to
- read the installation manual
- confirm you should have used the local administrator account from the start.

- trash your current Oracle installation
- reinstall Oracle
- next time read the installation manual *before* creating a mess.

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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