It sounds to me like somehow Windows policys got set on your machine. We use
these at work on lab machines to keep people out of control panels, etc.
What you need is to make a Poledit disk. Poledit is on your Win98 CD. Do a
search for Poledit.exe. Run this (there are help files), and you can turn
off these restrictions.  I'm not sure how these could've gotten set without
using Poledit in the first place, but give it a shot.
Glenn


Hi

I have a problem which happened just a few days ago. My daughter was playing
Captain Keen on my computer when, in her words, it went all funny. She shut
down the machine by powering off. Since then the system has developed the
following (which a refresh of windows has not cured), All icons on the
desktop have disappeared (but the files are still there as I can see them in
the Desktop Folder through Windows Explorer), the right mouse button fails
to operate on most actions (but not all, I can delete stuff with a right
mouse click in the Favorites folder) and all that comes up on my start
button is the help file, programs and winlogo changer at the top. The only
way to shut down is to press the restart button or the main power button.
That of course means that Windows does a scandisk everytime I start up. When
I pressed Alt-F4 to try to shut down the computer I got a dialog box that
read as follows: this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in
effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

Now, not wanting to format my C: if I can avoid it, there's a heap of stuff
I would have to transfer to a temporary drive, not to mention having to
reinstall umpteen applications, can anybody tell me how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Paul

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