Run MSCONFIG a limited user?

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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find it in
Google. I'm able to run MSCONFIG just fine as administrator, but I
can't run it as limited user. The message is "An access denied error
was returned while attempting to change a service. You may need to
log on using an administrator account".

But I'm pretty sure I've previously run MSCONFIG as limited user. Is
my memory wrong, or is something wrong? I've run a full virus scan
and I'm clean; I've looked at services.msc and nothing looks
suspicious; also as I say I have no problem running MSCONFIG from an
admin account.

What do I need to do to run MSCONFIG from a limited account, or is my
memory false and in fact I've never been able to do that?

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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

 

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To my knowledge, only Administrators can run MSCONFIG in an NTFS based system. FAT32 negates a lot of the built-in security of Windows XP, so you may have seen it in this type of environment.

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"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.1d8033ddb639cc589896ae@news.individual.net...
> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find it in
> Google. I'm able to run MSCONFIG just fine as administrator, but I
> can't run it as limited user. The message is "An access denied error
> was returned while attempting to change a service. You may need to
> log on using an administrator account".
>
> But I'm pretty sure I've previously run MSCONFIG as limited user. Is
> my memory wrong, or is something wrong? I've run a full virus scan
> and I'm clean; I've looked at services.msc and nothing looks
> suspicious; also as I say I have no problem running MSCONFIG from an
> admin account.
>
> What do I need to do to run MSCONFIG from a limited account, or is my
> memory false and in fact I've never been able to do that?
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
> been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

 

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In article <MPG.1d8033ddb639cc589896ae@news.individual.net>, Stan
Brown favored us with...
> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find it in
> Google.
>
> What do I need to do to run MSCONFIG from a limited account, or is my
> memory false and in fact I've never been able to do that?

D'oh! I'm sure I've run MSCONFIG as a limited user before, but I
must be wrong.

I kept looking, with different search terms, and I found the answer
to my question. "You must be logged on as an administrator or as a
member of the Administrators group to use the System Configuration
utility [MSCONFIG]."

That's from the page "How to troubleshoot by using the System
Configuration utility in Windows XP" at
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560>.

My apologies for the waste of bandwidth.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind
would be incapable of it." --Isaac Asimov, /Foundation/

 

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In article <e9fGY8prFHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, Doug Knox MS-MVP
favored us with...
> To my knowledge, only Administrators can run MSCONFIG in an NTFS based system. FAT32 negates a lot of the built-in security of Windows XP, so you may have seen it in this type of environment.

Thanks for the reply, Doug. I'm running on FAT32, all right, but in a
further search with different search terms I eventually turned up a
flat MS pronouncement that only administrators can run MSCONFIG. I've
just now posted the full reference.

I hardly ever log onto my machine as administrator, and I'm so sure
that I've frequently run MSCONFIG. To be so sure and so wrong ...

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

 

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Thanks for the follow-up, Stan. And its not a waste of bandwidth. If anyone learns from it, its worth it.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:MPG.1d803813a42b26189896b0@news.individual.net...
> In article <e9fGY8prFHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, Doug Knox MS-MVP
> favored us with...
>> To my knowledge, only Administrators can run MSCONFIG in an NTFS based system. FAT32 negates a lot of the built-in security of Windows XP, so you may have seen it in this type of environment.
>
> Thanks for the reply, Doug. I'm running on FAT32, all right, but in a
> further search with different search terms I eventually turned up a
> flat MS pronouncement that only administrators can run MSCONFIG. I've
> just now posted the full reference.
>
> I hardly ever log onto my machine as administrator, and I'm so sure
> that I've frequently run MSCONFIG. To be so sure and so wrong ...
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
> been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/