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pizzaboy192:
Good morning!
I have run into the strangest of issues:
I no longer am able to run admin commands on my Windows 8 Pro desktop, Windows Defender won't let me do anything, and a large number of services are running, but missing their description.

I've attached some screenshots with these errors.
I have no idea where to begin here. I tried the AIO tool, but it didn't do anything. I've tried doing a restore of the most recent backup, but these issues persisted, leading me to believe that they have been here more than a week.

I do not have physical access to this machine for a few weeks, as it is sitting in my parent's basement. I can remote into it just fine, and can do nearly all tasks but access administrator functions.

A secondary, local account also has these issues. I'm not sure what I need to be looking for.
Thanks in advance.

Shane:
Looks like a major problem with permissions. The current user profile might be corrupt.

The best thing to do, as a test, is to create a new user account, set it as an admin and then login with that account and see how things do.

Let me know how that goes :wink:

Shane

pizzaboy192:

--- Quote from: Shane on April 30, 2013, 10:02:21 pm ---Looks like a major problem with permissions. The current user profile might be corrupt.

The best thing to do, as a test, is to create a new user account, set it as an admin and then login with that account and see how things do.

Let me know how that goes :wink:

Shane

--- End quote ---
same issues on both the built in Administrator account and a new admin account.

Shane:
Man something is really messed up deep. Have you done the Windows 8 built in repair install yet?

Shane

pizzaboy192:
Is that something that is accessible through Windows 8 directly? I don't have physical access until the 13th, and can try rebooting into recovery and restoring a backup from around April 10th to try and recover the system from there if nothing else works.

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