Locked out of my MMC

From: donald (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/01/03


Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 06:49:00 -0800

I am not sure this will help but just a thought. I
believe you can change security features from a command
line with the "secedit" utility. Check out the
documentation for it and see if it helps. If I knew more
about it myself I would make some suggestions.

>-----Original Message-----
>Unfortunately I've done something rather stupid and
>possibly destructive. I believe I was in the Local policy
>for my users and I disabled authoring mode for the MMC.
>Now I've effectively locked out anyone from opening it
>including myself, the Admin. This is on my own computer
>and I was just goofing around because I'm taking a class
>so it not of dire importance but I was just wondering if
>this can be fixed or just chalked up as a major f-up.
>.
>



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