[plonkeroo]

When I go to the control panel and click on 'passwords' or 'users' I get the error message saying that the administrator has restricted these files. It also happens with some third-party programmes.

I am a single-user on Win98SE so if I'm not the administrator who is!

Anyone know how to sort this out?

[beedubaya]

Those options have been disabled in your Windows 98 registry. Windows 98 doesn't have an "Administrator" account like Windows 2000/XP does, so if administrators want to lock you out, they have to edit the registry to disable it.

[plonkeroo]

Thanks but I am the administrator on a user-only machine (i.e. nobody else is involved). This problem has only recently arisen and you suggest that it is something amiss in RegEdit - could you tell me what keys are at fault so I can correct them?