Parental Controls

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Parental Controls, UNABLE TO CHANGE AS ADMINISTRATOR

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tenor View Member Profile	Jul 3 2008, 03:26 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 3-July 08 Member No.: 220,273	When logged on as system administrator trying to change parental controls on a user account or set them up on a new user a/c I have recently started receiving the message "unable to alter parental controls. if the problem persists see administrator" accompanied by the dreaded yellow tringle enclosing exclamation mark. Setting up a new administrator a/c doesnot help. Any ideas on how to fix what appears to be a bug also being experienced by many others?

tenor View Member Profile	Jul 3 2008, 03:47 PM Post #2
New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 3-July 08 Member No.: 220,273	to be accurate the notice is "Unable to make changes to parental controls settings. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator."

iDukeHelp View Member Profile	Jul 3 2008, 09:40 PM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 26-April 08 Member No.: 205,481	Maybe the other acc that you are trying to put p.c. is an administrator? I believe you cant put p.c. on admins.

usasma View Member Profile	Jul 4 2008, 06:36 AM Post #4
Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,717 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824	To troubleshoot the issue, try disabling User Account Control TEMPORARILY. You can do this by accessing the User Accounts applet in Control Panel. If it works with UAC disabled, then I'd suspect that there was a corruption within Windows. You may be able to fix it by running "sfc.exe /scannow" (without the quotes) from the Start search dialog. Just press Enter after typing it in (with UAC disabled). -------------------- - John If you need a more detailed explanation, please ask for it. I have the Knack.

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