Re: Applied a security policy to standalone XP and strange outcome

From: Gringo (bkey89_at_msn.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: 16 Mar 2005 10:06:49 -0800

Roger,

Thanks so much for your response and help! I am not sure if I'm going
to answer your question about wandering into the Restricted Group
defition but this is what I did. I executed MMC and then add the
snap-in for computer security and then imported one of the templates to
"analyze" I thought it was the hisec one but not 100% positive but for
sure it was one of the templates that shows up on default. I then
applied it and that's when troubles started. So I guess it is possibe
that I "wandered" into that territory.

I downloaded the "Offline NT Password & Registry Editor" and put the
image on CD and booted to try to reset the admin password. It didn't
work, I went through the FAQ and followed those to a "T" but no luck.
When I run the program and get to the admin account to change the
password it does say "LANMAN password not set. User may have a blank
password". It does say it is usually safe to continue but I continue
with no luck. I guess that goes back to the fact that when I setup the
machine I put my name as the admin account and no administrator account
was ever made on the machine.

Now, I have another problem! Since trying to change the password and
rebooting a few times I cannot even log in with any user account
becaues it says my security log is full and a admin must sign on to
clear it! LOL I don't mind formatting and restarting but I do have
some stuff I would like to get, any suggestions???

Thanks again for your help for this newbie

Bobby

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