Re: CTRL ALT DEL function disabled locally

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 05/05/05 

Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:59:20 -0500

As Andy suggested it may be worth your while to create an OU for this
computer with security policy that does not require control-alt-delete which
is a security option. That at least may give you access to the computer to
extract data or otherwise attempt repairs. Another thing to try is to
connect to the computer remotely to modify the registry from another
computer on the network. If the computer was joined to the domain
successfully the domain admin group should be in the local administrators
group on that computer so that a domain admin could attempt repairs and view
the system application log on that computer for helpful information
remotely. The link below explains one area of the registry.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234562

If all else fails you still can access your files by a parallel installation
of an operating system or by placing the hard drive for that computer into a
another computer as a slave or secondary drive. If you resort to a rebuild
keep in mind that any files encrypted with EFS will not be available from a
new operating system unless there is a Recovery Agent available or the
user's EFS certificate/private key had been previously exported. --- Steve

"Chris Redmond" <Chris Redmond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B651ECC-5D26-4E78-A07D-60F8D495A16A@microsoft.com...
>I have a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) System at my hospital that was set up
> by a third party. Initially they left it as a workgroup with auto login
> ability. We decided to add it to our Windows Domain but by doing this,
> our
> global policy makes users press Ctrl Alt Del to login to the system.
>
> This issue at hand is this......
> Now that it rebooted I cannot press ctrl alt del to log in to the system.
> The ability to do this was disabled locally but we were unaware of this.
> I
> have tried finding a way into the system to do disable this, without luck.
> I
> have tried SafeMode, debugging mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt,
> Repair,
> but nothing works. Is there a way into this system without rebuilding it?
> I
> have 7 plus months of video that I really can't afford to lose.
>
> If anyone has any insight, please let me know....
>
> Thank you all in advance
> Chris Redmond
> Supervisor of Information Systems
> Warren Hospital
> (908) 387-6010
> ChrisRedmond@warrenhospital.org
> http://www.warrenhospital.org

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