Can't change system settings when logged in as administrator

You say you are logged in as "an Administrator".  

Is this the actual Administrator account or is this an account with admin rights?

Greenclock

Logon as the administrator and check to see if you can navigate into the "c:\windows\system32\grouppolicy" folder on the local drive.  If not, then the system has been locked down by local group policies and the administrator exempted from these lock downs by revoking rights to this folder (otherwise it would get locked down too).

If this is true, then you can create a new administrator account, grant it rights to the folder and use the group policy mmc to edit and reverse the lock down policies.  You have to reverse the lock down group policies in order to remove them.

Jeff

Well I log in as administrator.  As far as knowing if it has admin rights I am not sure.  I am unable to access the information that would tell me so.  Therefore I am guessing it does not have admin right, however there are only two users set up on this PC and both seem to function the same.

I was able to get to the group policy folder, however there were no files in it.

Any other ideas?

Are there any ideas towards this issue, because it still is not working.