Re: Restrictions error when logged on as an administrator

From: Phil (pmarg@charter.net)
Date: 04/06/03 

From: Phil <pmarg@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:02:45 GMT

Dave Brandman <davebrandman@no.spam.me.attbi.com> wrote in
news:Xns92CF8A39E98B7davebrandmansprintma@207.46.239.39:

> I have laptop with Administrator rights. When I log in under my
> "normal" userid which is part of the Adminstrators group, I can
> not access any Control Panel nor Properites under My Computer.
> I get the message that "This operation has been cancelled due to
> restrictions in effect on this computer". I can "Manage" my
> computer and it shows my userid as part of the Adminstrators
> group. I have never played with gpedit.mmc, so don't see how
> anything there can be at fault. I can log on as Adminstrator
> and things work fine. Any ideas?
>

Are you logging into a domain? There may be a domain policy that is being
used.

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