"Shutdown" no longer an option in Vista... (and other user account problems)

wheatln2

Weird title I know but it's rather hard to describe!

Basically I'm running Vista Home Premium as an administrator, and everything was fine until I now the little shutdown menu which used to be standard as in:



now only has a limited menu of options with the padlock and the arrow allowing "switch user, logoff & lock". When I try the old Alt + F4 option I get a dialog box "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

This, coupled with an inability to run regedit ("Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator") makes me believe I have somehow removed privileges or something. But I'm the sole user and User Accounts tells me I'm an administrator... Anyone got any ideas on how these policies/privileges have been edited and how to get them back to an all powerful restriction-free environment?

edit: Had a look here and found my problem, http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/105003-shutdown-options-start-menu.html , and I would attempt the manual way or method 2 but I can't run regedit...

wheatln2

Sorry to bump this but no one got anything at all on this?

macrubicon

Sounds like a policy option or you have lost some admin rights....

can you run shutdown -i from the command prompt ?

you can stick in your IP and issue the shutdown or restart from there. Would get you out of a hole until you can figure out what's going on.