More often than not, when your machine is on the receiving end of a virus or malware infection, one of the things that gets attacked is the computers security settings while the little nasty is trying to hide itself and cause havoc. Even if your antivirus or security package might have been able to clean the infection, there still could be a number of security settings which were changed, remaining that way, which has the potential to further cause trouble.
A great source of frustration is when you might get messages telling you that you don’t have permission to install or upgrade a piece of software or use Windows Update. Common pieces of software to get this sort of error are antivirus and firewalls.
There is a small portable utility called Rizone Security Restore that will attempt to sort out these permission errors by restoring Windows to its default security settings and give you back control.
Along with the permissions fixes, the security restore utility may be able to help when the error is a simple ‘Installation Failed’ error, and is also quiet adept at curing the dreaded 0×80070005 ‘Access Denied’ error which is again connected to system permissions and can affect system components like system restore.
As the program is portable, simply download and extract it, then run the SecRes.exe.
Running it couldn’t be easier to use, as you can see. Press the ‘Go!’ button and wait. The process could take 10 minutes or more so be patient.
This is a very focused tool and I would not recommended you use it unless you are specifically having one of the problems previously outlined; permission errors, ‘Installation Failed’ errors or the 0×80070005 ‘Access Denied’ error. Any security settings you may have set up yourself will also be reset.
Rizone Security Restore is compatible with XP, Vista, 7 and Server 2008 / 2003
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