Can't get Disk Defrag to work...

Walter-E--Kurtz

When I try it in the sys32 folder, it says

"MMC cannot open..."

It goes on to say that it may be because I don't have access rights to my computer. I am the administrator, and lately I have been having to click to log in when I restart my computer. How can I get it so I don't have to do anything, it just goes right on to the desktop?

stoopid

Funny, I was having the same issue on a friend's XP Pro installation. I'd have to shift-rightclick, run as, and login as the admin account to install and run certain applications. Problem is, HIS account IS the admin account!

Turning off the auto login is easy, it's in the user accounts section where it asks you 'how the account should behave'... turn off user switching I believe it is, can't remember for the life of me and I'm on my w2k workstation at work atm. The problem with the admin thingie I didn't spend more than 5 minutes on and gave up. That particular friend is not PC savvy enough to do any installation on his own. Hell, he hasn't run windows update in quite some time, I had to do that as well for him.

If I find something out today in my searching I'll let you know...

Walter-E--Kurtz

I am still having the problem, the "run as" thing didn't work. I tried logging in with my password and everything, yet it kept on giving me those dumb prompts!!

Maybe it's a virus...?

stoopid

Could be a virus, maybe even just adware/spyware. I haven't been back to my friend's place to work on this cause, frankly, it probably would end in me just reinstalling windows (his install's over a year old anyway). Problem is -- I'm not all that interested in volunteering those hours of my life just for him to do the same thing again that caused the original issue (catch 22).

kryyst

Can you run a scandisk?