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The following error occured attempting to save properties for group administrators

I am having great difficulty with a particular pc. It will not let me add users to local groups (administrators, power users, etc.). I have tried connecting directly to it via computer management console and have tried adding the user in safe mode w/networking, but still no luck. Another issue I'm having is with a program called Autodesk Inventor 11. When trying to open the program it first gives me an error along the lines of "Inventor could not register due to a program (Explorer) running. Would you like to end the offending program?" It doesn't matter if I select yes or no; I always get an error along the lines of "You do not have sufficient permissions..." even though I am logged in as a domain admin.

A little background on this PC:
- The hard drive was cloned from a master disk image.
- The SID has been changed to a unique SID
- This is a brand new computer (1 of 13 others that run fine)
- Running XP Pro SP3, dual core processor

Any suggestions?

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jgrady81

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Yes. I used GhostWalk to change the SID. Inventor does use a license, however this PC is #9 of 13 PC's using this cloned image. This is extremely perplexing.

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I would attempt another reimage if it is a fresh machine. Check for memory or disk errors. That is perplexing. Seems like the image may be subtly corrupted.

I like to use MEMTEST (from an Ubunto boot CD) to test RAM, or Prime95 to test Ram/CPU/bad power/caps on motherboard.

jgrady81

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The issue was in fact a permissions issue. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm guessing that we have a pretty crappy GPO script running at corporate and it somehow missed the new computers (this eventually happened to 6 other computers as well). I had to manually add specific domain security groups to the administrator's group.