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I upgraded from NAV 2003 to NAV 2006 and am unable to get activesync 4.1 to work. I get the error code 85010014.
Symantec has been no help. I disable autoprotect and zone alarm and still not sync.
Has anyone been able to get Norton antivirus and activesync 4.1 to work together.
Yes, I have tried search and I do not see a solution unique to NAV 2006
Larry
Try disconnecting the device and restarting the pc. Only connect your device to the pc after you've logged on. That should work, as I ran into a similar problem on my work computer. Good luck.
JB
The best Solution: Don't use Norton or any other Symantec Product, it's trash and trashes your PC... Try the best: Kaspersky
I tried deleting partnerships, disabling nav and zone alarm, restarting computer but i still get the 85010014 error.
Norton worked before i upgraded.
Any more suggestions.
larry
I used to get the problem in TuMa 1.4 (Blueangel rom). Flashed back to 1.3 and it seems to work properly.
Try flashing another rom, what device are you using?
try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=277988#277988
greetings,
Martin
texasez said:
I upgraded from NAV 2003 to NAV 2006 and am unable to get activesync 4.1 to work. I get the error code 85010014.
Symantec has been no help. I disable autoprotect and zone alarm and still not sync.
Has anyone been able to get Norton antivirus and activesync 4.1 to work together.
Yes, I have tried search and I do not see a solution unique to NAV 2006
Larry
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Well, here's the actual description of your error
0x85010014
ActiveSync encountered a problem on the server.
Exchange Server reported an internal error. This condition is generally temporary. Try to sync again later. However, if the problem persists, you may need to contact an administrator.
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I had similar problems with Macfee AV. I got a solution from some great person on this forum that the native win xp sp2 firewall gets messed up with the AV software and just prevents the sync even if you have Activesync in your exceptions list. I tried disabling the windows xp firewall and to my surprise the sync worked perfectly fine.
Not a good solution, but worth giving it a try. I will try to get somemore details on what can be done about this soon.
Anup
This is what finally worked for me. It comes from another forum.
Although Norton denied that NAV 2006 had a script blocker, it was in my registry. How it got there, i don't know. Activesync worked for me with NAV 2003.
The following from a MS Forum fixed it for me: -
ActiveSync is failing to open the Outlook Object Model. There are typically
two common failures here. The first one is if the MAPI.dll was replaced by
an install of another application. The second is a virus blocking program.
Some Anit-Virus software doesn’t properly clean it’s self after uninstall,
to manually fix this up, please follow the following steps.
a. On the desktop, click Start->Run
b. In the “Run” dialog, type “regedit”
c. This will launch the Windows Registry Editor
d. In the Treeview in the left pane, navigate to the following
registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
i. Once you’ve opened the CLSID
note if you type “{0006F03A” it should take you to the right entry
e. Expand the GUID node
f. Click on “InprocServer32″ under the GUID node
g. You will see a value set in the “Data” field of the “(Default)”
h. This value should guide you to what application has installed the
script blocking. For example, Norton AntiVirus puts in an entry like this:
“C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Symantec Shared\\Script
Blocking\\ScrBlock.dll”
i. If the AntiVirus program in question is still
installed, disable Script blocking in that software
j. If the AntiVirus program in question is *not* installed, or the
user cannot figure out how to disable script blocking, delete the entry
i.
Right-click the “(Default)” value name in the right-hand pane
ii. Select
“Delete” from the context menu
iii. This
should leave you with a value “(Default)” where the “Data” is set to “(value
not set)”
k. Press the “Sync” button on the ActiveSync app on the desktop and
it should work now
*Note: I don’t take any responsiblity for you editing your Registry. Take relevant backups etc etc as normal!
Here is the link for the above fix and some other options.
Larry
http://thinkabdul.com/2006/02/14/ac...problem-on-the-desktop-support-code-85010014/
my solution
i had the same problem with my mda not connecting to active sync...basically i turned off the internet worm protection on norton 2006 and now it works all the time...hope this helps...now i have to reinstall norton since i just found out the program is not functioning right
Hi all
Does anyone know how i can disable or hide the 'Lock' icon in the 'Settings' program group??
We are rolling out a large number of Qtek9100 in our workplace and have a requirement to set a password on the devices and then disable the 'Lock' icon so that users cannot turn off password.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Why not incorporate a dummy password protect control panel, using redirect?
Check out the MSN tutorial/SDK.
V
Dummy Password Protect Control Panel
Hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Could you give me a bit more advice about a dummy password protect control panel with redirect please.
What is the url for msn tutorial/sdk??
Thanks again
if you download tweaks2k2 it will let you disable the password panel in settings to prevent your users changing the password or it can be done in the registry manually if you have the time.
R
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];314989
V
Hi Rob61280
Thanks for the advice
Do you perchance know the registry setting that i would need to change to hide/disable 'lock' icon.
I think if i installed tweaks2k2 then users could use it to change the settings.
MavrickDX
I think you can unistall tweaks2k2 and the settings stay as you set them.
I'll have a look at the registry and see if there is an easy way to redirect the password applet so it doesnt function (there was a contrast applet you could enable using a similar method).
Rob
I've still not found a redirect (it may not be possible through the registry alone but i will keep looking)
there is however a useful function :-
"Enable policy restrictions (Pocket PC 2002)
Pocket PC 2002 devices includes a system policy system to prevent users from downloading and installing new programs via Pocket Internet Explorer, Inbox, File Explorer, ActiveSync or beaming between devices or renaming files.
Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\AdminPassword\
Rename the "Redirect" value to "xRedirect"
Soft reset and go to Start > Settings > System tab > Policy applet to set the policy restriction on the device."
from http://palmare.idnes.cz/PocketPC_WinCE/WinCE_Utility/tweaks020913.html
This works on wm5 as well
Rob
Redirect will not work
I Browsed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\
then renamed password to xpassword
then softreset
this disabled the original lock applet
but
another is created in the system tab
anyone any idea how to prevent the applet from being recreated using the registry?
R
Hi Rob61280
Many thanks for all the work you have put in.
I will try the tweaks2k2 tool and see if i can hide/disable lock icon and then uninstall tweaks2k2 and see if settings hold.
And I thought PDA's were just for a bit of fun :lol: :lol:
MavrickDX
Hi Guy's/Gal's,
As you may be familiar with my OLD Windows 8 Hack (Blog + Video), and that really wasn't too hard to figure out (since then the last windows release now actually doesn't fix it but makes it obvious how to do it, making it no longer a real hack... However, I have now figured out another one... This one exploits the security in Windows 8 to view a Folders contents and technically edit/open the contents without ever modifying ANY security settings.
You can read a bit more on my Blog (also has a How to video on the TechMeShow on YouTube) or just watch the Video.
Question is, why do I bother with these specific bypasses or point out what may not be useful to some? As a developer, I.T. Prof., and security expert and someone who gets paid to work in Enterprise, this is alarming and is NOT good for the future of Windows 8. They don't take my calls or emails and this information should be open until it gets fixed, plus they don't pay me but I do have other and worse hacks for Windows 8 but I hope I won't have to publicly release them cause I will have to uninstall Windows 8.
Thanks,
Lance
lseidman said:
Hi Guy's/Gal's,
As you may be familiar with my OLD Windows 8 Hack (Blog + Video), and that really wasn't too hard to figure out (since then the last windows release now actually doesn't fix it but makes it obvious how to do it, making it no longer a real hack... However, I have now figured out another one... This one exploits the security in Windows 8 to view a Folders contents and technically edit/open the contents without ever modifying ANY security settings.
You can read a bit more on my Blog (also has a How to video on the TechMeShow on YouTube) or just watch the Video.
Question is, why do I bother with these specific bypasses or point out what may not be useful to some? As a developer, I.T. Prof., and security expert and someone who gets paid to work in Enterprise, this is alarming and is NOT good for the future of Windows 8. They don't take my calls or emails and this information should be open until it gets fixed, plus they don't pay me but I do have other and worse hacks for Windows 8 but I hope I won't have to publicly release them cause I will have to uninstall Windows 8.
Thanks,
Lance
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Dude, you started MMC as Administrator (1:52-1:53)... you didn't bypass anything. :silly:
Since you allowed the program to run as Administrator it can access anything, for example: it also works when you start cmd as admin.
Yeah and in the video the kid gives his other account admin rights. To be secure you don't run as local admin... same in server / client environment. This isn't a hack.
Maybe you should watch from 1:50... No admin command prompt is loaded but say it was for argument sake. You couldn't view or edit the contents via Explorer but Security Template under the same account, it was accessible (couldn't view folder contents or perform any tasks in explorer).
So, if it was an admin account or in the admin user group, it shouldn't have been permitted either way as that's not how folder security is supposed to work or security in general. You have to provide explicit permission to the folder to let a specific user account (even with an account being in the Admin user group) have viewable access or any access, in this examples it plainly shows the flaw in that.
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Dude, you started MMC as Administrator (1:52-1:53)... you didn't bypass anything. :silly:
Since you allowed the program to run as Administrator it can access anything, for example: it also works when you start cmd as admin.
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What part of the video was this done? Also they're not strictly local, they're associated with LIVE Accounts and logged in via remote desktop (not that that matters at all). This means, I use my LIVE password and email to login to the machine.
ROCOAFZ said:
Yeah and in the video the kid gives his other account admin rights. To be secure you don't run as local admin... same in server / client environment. This isn't a hack.
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that was painful to watch
I see what your saying about folder access, if it doesn't work as admin in explorer then why should it on via the MMC.
but the simple fact remains, unless you have access to admin, you cant access MMC.
if you have access to admin then there is literally nothing I couldn't do to gain access to the correct folders anyway, that is very simple and ive yet to come across any folder I haven't been able to get in to AS ADMIN
Its not a major fail, a slight glitch at best, but only a fail if you the user allows access to your computer with admin rights.
as to accessing app isolated storage data, yes you could manipulate the app via the XMLs, we've been able to do that for years, theres no difference in that respect then analysing a process, and changing settings, memory calls or even injecting DLLs. So im not sure what the story is here, sorry.
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Maybe you should watch from 1:50... No admin command prompt is loaded but say it was for argument sake. You couldn't view or edit the contents via Explorer but Security Template under the same account, it was accessible (couldn't view folder contents or perform any tasks in explorer).
So, if it was an admin account or in the admin user group, it shouldn't have been permitted either way as that's not how folder security is supposed to work or security in general. You have to provide explicit permission to the folder to let a specific user account (even with an account being in the Admin user group) have viewable access or any access, in this examples it plainly shows the flaw in that.
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I've watched the complete clip... you're just not getting it.
You logged on with an admin account, you allowed MMC to make changes to the computer by clicking on Yes.
Therefore you can expand the WindowsApps folder and browse.
When you start Windows Explorer, even when you are logged on with an admin account, it still requires your permission before you can change anything (Just like you clicked on Yes for MMC).
I have just created a new local user on my virtual Windows 8 machine without admin rights and opened MMC, it did not ask me to allow the program to make changes.
I then went to the Security Templates stuff like you did, and voila... I can't expand the folder.
It's not a 'hack' or 'flaw', this behavior is completely normal when you start a program as admin.
I've attached some screen shots so you hopefully understand.
Do me a favor then...
Load up a command prompt, but first you'll need to enable the Administrator account which is disabled on the system. To re-enable obviously go in to MMC and add the snap-in for user account management. Once the admin account is active (remember need to set a password).
Now, in the prompt please type:
%windir%\system32\runas.exe /noprofile /user:administrator "explorer.exe C:\"\Program Files"\WindowsApps"
Once you hit enter, the Windows Explorer will be loaded as "Administrator". Are you able to now view the folder contents logged in and under the authenticated Administrative account? No, unfortunately you can't, it requires you to go through the process with the security tab to provide full control. With MMC it bypassed that whole process, even as Admin (literally).
Maybe my point is a little more clear now, I hope? It doesn't matter if you're authenticated as Administrator or given Administrator privilege in MMC. Explorer still prevents you from viewing the folder contents or edit the folder contents.
Donny1987 said:
I've watched the complete clip... you're just not getting it.
You logged on with an admin account, you allowed MMC to make changes to the computer by clicking on Yes.
Therefore you can expand the WindowsApps folder and browse.
When you start Windows Explorer, even when you are logged on with an admin account, it still requires your permission before you can change anything (Just like you clicked on Yes for MMC).
I have just created a new local user on my virtual Windows 8 machine without admin rights and opened MMC, it did not ask me to allow the program to make changes.
I then went to the Security Templates stuff like you did, and voila... I can't expand the folder.
It's not a 'hack' or 'flaw', this behavior is completely normal when you start a program as admin.
I've attached some screen shots so you hopefully understand.
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ok, let me put this another way
get access to that folder without giving yourself any admin rights.
If you do that then its a security risk, if you cant then your just highlighting one of the biggest USER fails of all time, a fail that's so epic that it single handily helps turn 10,000s of computers in to bots and that is running their default desktop account as an admin.
lseidman said:
Do me a favor then...
Load up a command prompt, but first you'll need to enable the Administrator account which is disabled on the system. To re-enable obviously go in to MMC and add the snap-in for user account management. Once the admin account is active (remember need to set a password).
Now, in the prompt please type:
%windir%\system32\runas.exe /noprofile /user:administrator "explorer.exe C:\"\Program Files"\WindowsApps"
Once you hit enter, the Windows Explorer will be loaded as "Administrator". Are you able to now view the folder contents logged in and under the authenticated Administrative account? No, unfortunately you can't, it requires you to go through the process with the security tab to provide full control. With MMC it bypassed that whole process, even as Admin (literally).
Maybe my point is a little more clear now, I hope? It doesn't matter if you're authenticated as Administrator or given Administrator privilege in MMC. Explorer still prevents you from viewing the folder contents or edit the folder contents.
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As far as I know you cannot start Explorer anymore as administrator, since Windows 7 (maybe even Vista, but I never used it).
In Windows XP when you started a command prompt as admin and then 'explorer.exe /separate' then the explorer was really started as admin, this is no longer working... gotta be new security that Microsoft is using since Vista/7
As dazza9075 said, do the same without being an admin on your machine and then we'll start to use the words 'LePorte hack'
While I was writing and testing a WP 8 web app, I had it connected via wifi to Fiddler2. When I plugged my Dev Unlocked HTC 8x into my computer, the phone "dialed out" to h ttps://developerservices.windowsphone.com/Services/WindowsPhoneRegistration.svc/01/2010/DeviceStatus?deviceId=deviceid&fulldDeviceId=fulldeviceid The response is an XML packet that tells the phone how many days are left of being DeveloperUnlocked as well as the number of apps that are allowed!
this request/response sequence happens EVERY time I plug my developer unlocked Windows Phone 8 into the USB port of my Dev PC and PIN unlock it.
Keep in mind I installed the root cert that Fiddler generated for my PC a while back, so it can decrypt HTTPS traffic to/from my phone.
If anyone knows what the integer equivalent of "that magic DWORD value" is, I will craft a custom response packet and see if it changes anything.
Please see the attached screenshot for proof!
Edit:
So I did try GoodDayToDie's xaps and it looks like increasing the value from 10 to 2147483647 (I think its the integer equivalent to 0x7FFFFFFF) didn't have any effect that I could see. The InteropCapNoOem xap fails to deploy with error code 0x81030120. This error code normally means you are NOT interop unlocked back in the WP7 days. The OemCapsNoInterop.xap file generates an error telling me to "fix the Capabilities in [the] WMAppMAnifest.xml file.
I wonder if I can sideload more than 10 apps now though?
Maybe we can figure out what app is generating this "call home" and see if there are any other funky things we can stick in the xml tree?
Whoa. I could have sworn they were using cert pinning for that. I'll investigate, though...
EDIT: Couldn't get that connection request even showing up on my work computer. Will try from home.
Here is the service operations page:
https://developerservices.windowsphone.com/Services/WindowsPhoneRegistration.svc/help and (according to API) DeviceStatus call don't have fullDeviceId={FULLDEVICEID} parameter.
BTW, compu829, what is the fullDeviceId parameter, how it looks like?
Wait... You could change the value on the phone? That's a huge improvement. I'm stuck with only 3 apps (stupid dreamspark) and desperately need more!
This is a great find! I, unfortunately have never seen this happen though. Do you happen to know if you had the WP Device Registration program or the Application Deployment program running at the time?
EDIT: I've been debugging multiple apps with Fiddler up and proxy on my phone and I haven't noticed this. I see it now. I feel stupid lol Time to play around
EDIT 2: Microsoft does NOT like when you have fiddler intercepting on Registration. It returns a success result, but the developer registration tool gives an error indicating that it cannot connect to the phone. Grrr and after I went through the work of changing the response value for the number of apps that can be sideloaded. I bet this is a timing thing... I'll see what I can do.
I don't think it's timing. Even if I left the request completely unmodified and just ran it through the proxy to watch the process, the tool said that there was a problem, and the phone did not get unlocked. They're either testing for the presence of a proxy somehow, or there's some side channel that *is* using cert pinning, and is therefore unable to connect through Fiddler.
Also, editing the a:AppsAllowed element doesn't seem to work. The phone doesn't complain or anything, but the registry value doesn't change.
On my phone, I noticed it AFTER I had developer unlocked it. More concrete steps on what I did to reproduce:
1. On test PC, Installed Fiddler.
2. On test PC, exported trusted root certificate that Fiddler installed.
3. Emailed certificate to my phone and installed it.
4. Now enable the proxy on the phone. Things like email, Windows Phone Updates, etc will now work normally!
5. Plug phone in to Visual Studio Development PC, and wait for the PC to detect the device.
6. You will see the phone "dial out".
Without installing the fiddler trusted root certificate, you will see the handshake, but the phone doesn't know what do do with the packet because the certificate generated by fiddler is untrusted.
Using this same technique, you can have some serious fun with Windows Updates
GoodDayToDie said:
Also, editing the a:AppsAllowed element doesn't seem to work. The phone doesn't complain or anything, but the registry value doesn't change.
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see last post Are you guys installing the trusted root certificate on your phone?
compu829 said:
see last post Are you guys installing the trusted root certificate on your phone?
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It would be nice if Fiddler's cert was trusted :/. I'm able to see all HTTPS requests, etc but it just hates it when dev unlocking the phone. Which other trust root cert are you speaking about?
more detailed instructions
snickler said:
It would be nice if Fiddler's cert was trusted :/. I'm able to see all HTTPS requests, etc but it just hates it when dev unlocking the phone. Which other trust root cert are you speaking about?
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this is what I did:
On Development PC:
1. Click Start, click Start Search, type mmc, and then press ENTER.
2. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
3. Under Available snap-ins, click Certificates, click Add, select current user, and then click Finish.
4. click ok to close the add/remove snap-in dialog
5. In the left-hand pane navigate to "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" --> "Certificates"
6. in the right-hand pane, look for the certificates labeled "DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot" (I have two for some reason, you may only have 1)
7. Right-click on the certificate and go to "All Tasks" --> "Export".
8. Run through the certificate export wizard, leaving everything as the defaults.
9. Once you have exported your certificates, email them as attachments to your Windows phone.
10. Open the email on your WIndows Phone. Click on the certificate file and wait for it to process. Then when prompted, install it.
11. After that, any https traffic that you intercept/edit will go through as trusted to your Windows phone, provided that the application isn't expecting a specific certificate.
Things this made work:
1. all App communications over https
2. Windows Updates
3. all email accounts.
4. App Store communications (except for actually downloading apps, IIRC).
Things that didn't work:
1. Anything that requires certificate pinning as the certificate is embedded within the app. Therefore it doesn't make a call into the trusted root certificate store. I believe this includes running the actual "Developer Unlock" app.
if you place the following code in the "OnBeforeResponse" section of the CustomRules.js file, you should be able to install more than 3 or 10 apps, provided the program that is "phoning home" isn't using certificate pinning.
Code:
oSession.utilDecodeResponse();
oSession.utilReplaceInResponse("AppsAllowed>10</","AppsAllowed>400</");
... These are steps that have already been taken. You actually did even more steps then necessary. All you have to do is point to your computer's IP address and port that Fiddler is running on within IE Mobile (Make sure Remote IP access in Fiddler is enabled), click on the certificate and it will install on the phone. You'll be able to see the requests from the phone. Everything you listed above is what I've been able to do. Nothing different from what I was saying .
@compu829: Yes, of course I am. If I weren't, it wouldn't be possible to edit that value at all; I wouldn't even see it because the TLS handshake would fail... (FWIW, I work with proxies all the time, usually Burp Suite not Fiddler, but in any case I'm quite familiar with setting up the MitM certs). I do wonder whether there's something changed here (GDR2 change, maybe?) because I could have sworn that intercepting the phone's traffic during unlock didn't work at all before (presumably due to cert pinning). I may be mistaken, though.
In any case, it still doesn't *actually* work. I guess I could try invisible proxying - use ARP spoofing or a custom routing rule on the router to send the data through my PC, and capture/modify it there, without revealing the presence of a proxy - but I don't know if that's the issue or if it's something else entirely.
EDIT: Your steps are way more complex than needed. For example, you can export the root cert from Fiddler by going to Tools menu (in Fiddler) -> Fiddler Options -> HTTPS.
whoops lol. Oh well. I didn't realize it was so easy to export/Import!
Anyways, All I know is that I could pretty much do nothing on my phone when I connected it to the proxy until I emailed myself the root cert. Once I did that, email started flowing, apps started working, and WIndows Updates stopped erroring out.
It is entirely possible that whatever is generating the call is silently rejecting the response packet. I was just shocked when I plugged my phone in to see that packet show up.
I know that Windows Updates lets me modify the requests and responses without complaining, so maybe that is another way in? I assume that must be running elevated lol. Maybe we can get it to launch a background app that is already on the phone.
The way I see it, this will only work temporarily. Next time phone dials home without you running the Fiddler it will reset the AppsAllowed value. Am I right?
@amaric: If you'd actually read the thread, you'd see that it doesn't appear to work at all...
But yes, it would probably reset itself too. We don't have the ability (right now) to edit the registry keys which control that phone-home behavior. However, it might be / have been possible to do that if we had interop-unlock...
on the phone there is the file "PhoneReg.exe", which works with this data, and it check certificate Common Name (must be Microsoft...) and Thumbprint to hardcoded data
Didn't the ChevronWP7 work exactly like this until MS fixed the bug in NoDo?
@snickler, @GoodDayToDie
There is something I can't get out of my head...after the Ativ S devices are interop unlocked, they'd "reset" after a while until we made them stop phoning home...This means that somehow Microsoft is associating the phone's device ID with your interop level...is this something done purely server side, or is there a way to maybe send this info TO Microsoft's servers so they can send the info back to our phones? Just a thought....
That's an interesting research question; we can set the URLs which are used to make those "phone home" checks to a site we control, possibly use HTTP instead of HTTPS, and see if they work. Worst case, cert pinning will cause the connection attempt to fail and we're right where we are now; best case, it's... umm, well it's interesting, but I don't see any likelihood of actually getting *additional* permissions out of this. Still, I've been wrong about things like that before. Somebody want to set up a transparent HTTP -> HTTPS proxy to listen for the request, forward it, record the response and forward it?
I have no admin right to get to disk manager, users and account and anything that requires admin rights. When I try to start something with admin rights I get an error "This file does not have a program associated with it performing this action..."
I lost rights as soon as I deleted my D drive (after restart) which contained programs and personal files. My E drive is a clone on D but I cannot rename E to be the new D drive since I don't have admin rights.
I have tried searching everywhere and couldn't come up with a solution
U can try one thing but not sure if it would work
Open cmd
type net user xyz
where xyz is name of ur pc
This command is used to add a user acc
If it doesnt work for you then u can try this one net user xyz where xyz is any name
this will lead to creation of new user acc and then login with this username
well do it at your own risk
Hope it works
Sent from my GT-S7500 using xda app-developers app
... you do realize that adding a user account also requires Admin, right?
A better bet is to actually log in as the Admin account. This *should* be possible if you use the recovery console (on Win7 and down you could do it from Safe Mode even if the Admin account was disabled, but I think they removed that from Win8 as a security threat).
There are progressively sillier other ways I know of to fix things, such as extracting the computer's hard drive/SSD (assuming it's removable) and editing it using another computer, but there really should be a way to fix the problem. Given what you said, I'm actually kind of shocked you can still sign into your PC as is.
Out of curiosity, what on earth possessed you to delete an in-use drive? That's... um, well, it's like one of those jokes about boneheaded tech support calls. At least you backed it up first...?