made it too secure?

From: Gregg Shepherd (GreggShepherd_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/05


Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:59:01 -0800

I run a network at a school. We are upgrading from Windows 98 and 2000 to
XP. On 2000, it was my practice to use MMC policy control to turn of
registry editing and MMC Author Mode access (along with a lot of other
stuff). When I needed to get back in to MMC, I had a registry import that
would turn MMC Author Mode access back on.

I did not realize that with XP, when I turned off registry editing, registry
import was also turned off. This is good security, but now I can't get back
in to those computers, even though I still have the Administrator password,
of course. I believe there is a procedure to restore default policies (at
least there was one on Windows 2000), but is that the only alternative short
of a reinstall of XP?

Something quick and easy would be best but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Gregg Shepherd



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