"Marcus" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My Windows account do not have administrator priviliges anymore even
> though the user account window accessible from the control panel claims
> I do.
>
> I did my first time programming with setting ACL:s. I thought I had
> completed my application since it seemed to work fine setting the ACL:s
> the way I wanted to.
>
> Then I had a huge problem one day all of a sudden. My laptop claimed I
> did not have DotNet 2.0 installed (even though I have, I can even see
> it in the add/remove programs list).
>
> I  went into Windows explorer and clicked on the c:/Windows folder. The
> Microsoft.NET folder existed but it had no + sign indicating
> subfolders. When clicking on it it I get a not available, access denied
> kind of message.
>
> I am not able (or allowed maybe) to install, repair or remove DotNet
> 2.0.
>
> I went to "Windows Update" on the Web to download updates for my OS
> (Win XP pro SP2 by the way) but there I got the message that I have to
> have administrator priviligies to update Windows.
>
> The very same thing happened a couple of weeks later on my other
> computer (this one I am using right now, I guess I will format this one
> tonight...)
>
> Can it be my application messing my system up?
>
> All I do is set some files (application specific) (full rights except
> delete) for all Windows accounts. My application is written in c# and
> depends on DotNet 2.0. The methods I use for setting ACL's are:
> AddAccessRule, RemoveAccessRule, SetAccessControl.
>
> During the developement of this application (about a year) I have NOT
> had this problems earlier. I got them after trying setting ACL's. One
> other thing I have done recently is adding dotnet2.0 and windows
> installer 3.1 as prerequisites in my VS2005 setup project (could this
> be the source of my problem?).
>
> I guess these methods have been used plenty and also VS2005 setup
> project has been tested very much. When I got the problems on the first
> computer I thought, well a case of bad luck... but when I got it again
> on another computer I begin to wonder. I have tested for viruses - none
> found.
>
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