Probably something very simple I have overlooked. Early version of Win 10. Thankful to find your entrance to safe mode!! Kudos for that!!
I ran all of the virus and malware apps with nothing except 2 adwares found on AVG with low concern which I deleted. Checked for root kits and all I could look for, ran the Tweaking Win Repair and found a lot in the parsing which was repaired. Restarted and ran again. One more, so repeated, got up the repair option itself and found several repairs needed, completed, rebooted, ran again, clear. Followed all the way through. Still no resolution.
I have two accounts listed now, mine and administrator (which is new). I had all administrative privileges naturally. Problem that showed up 2 days ago which started all the work is that I cannot get into system restore or settings of any kind. No administrative privileges available in either account or way to get to them.
Message that appears is as follows: RESTRICTIONS
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
I found 2 very old topics that had this message but neither remotely apply. Anybody tell me what I seem to be missing here? I cannot get into system restore, control panel or much that can help me. Seems to me I saw this with someone else before and it was a missing driver? But my memory is not that good. Thanks for any help, TJ