Re: Everyone Group Missing

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 11/09/02 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:25:05 -0500

"Regan Stricker" <rs3239@sbc.com> wrote in message
news:1d1201c2876e$d3ecd0a0$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
> I have lost the ability or rights to install applications,
> launch Task Scheduler, access the Local Security Policy
> settings, etc. When I looked into this problem I found an
> article 300267 that makes reference to the Everyone
> group. However, I am missing the Everyone group. I tried
> to create it and receive a message stating that the group
> already exists. I have administrative rights, I have
> logged in as Administrator but continue to receive
> the "access denied" messages. I am running Win2k Pro
> SP2. Prior to the problem, I made an attempt to lock down
> my PC by limiting the rights of the local administrator
> and changed the password. I cannot recall all of the
> changes I made.

Yeah, it's a pain to document changes to Group Policy, but you'll be really
glad you did when you have problems, because those can be brutal to track
down.

You could try restoring the default group policy templates:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#4.41

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