Re: Group Policy Issues

From: vh1967 (vh1967_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:35:03 -0700

Hi Steve,

Thank you for getting back with me.

My OS: Windows_NT --- Is that correct?

On the Database : I either don't know where to look or they are missing.
No files under Database. Now what do I do?

Also: I have some conflicts in devise manager and It won't let me change
the resources / I/O. 3 items have conflicts. Could this also be caused by
policy's by chance?

Thanks for not making me feel --- well --- stupid. Val
"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

>
> "vh1967" <vh1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:740404CD-5FB7-468F-AE9E-917FF8479053@microsoft.com...
> > Hi... Hope someone can help me. I have a laptop - Dell 5100 Inspiron.
> > Bought it 1 1/2 years ago. Running Windows XP Prof. - sp1a.
> >
> > I have had issues with it from day one. I am the only one that uses this
> > computer and it usually sits at my desk hooked up to all etc's. (printer,
> > camera, etc).
> >
> > This Domain and Workgroup and Net and Network and local and group, etc etc
> > etc. i way beyond me - for sure not user friendly. The more I think I
> > know
> > the less I actually do.
> >
> > Anyway to get to my issue:
> >
> > 1) I go into services and have tried to change a couple of services to
> > automatically start up. I shut down and the next day - It's not the way I
> > saved it. Same with other settings like taskbar personalized settings.
>
> I would not mess with service settings unless you have a specific reason and
> from knowledgeable
> documentation with specific recommendations such as the Windows XP Security
> Guide from Microsoft
> or the publisher of an application. Settings not being saved could be
> related to secedit.sdb corruption.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2D3E25BC-F434-4CC6-A5A7-09A8A229F118&displaylang=en
>
> >
> > 2) I go into Group Policy and it gives me this:
> >
> > "The Group Policy security settings that apply to this machine could not
> > be
> > determined.
> > The error returned when trying to retrieve these settings from the local
> > security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The
> > parameter is incorrect.
> >
> > All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be
> > given as to whether or not a given security setting is defined by Group
> > Policy.
> > Any local security setting modified through this User Interface may
> > subsequently be overridden by domain-level policies."
>
> It sounds like your secedit.sdb may be corrupt. See the link below on how to
> use esentutl.exe to check
> for and hopefully repair.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_scetroubletn.mspx
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 3) I also have a couple of (stupid) questions for ya:
> > Is my operating system windows xp pro or is windows nt? In computer
>
> Windows NT4.0/Windows 2000/2003/XP Pro are all versions of NT. Open System
> Properties and look in the
> general page to find out your operating system.
>
> > information is reads nt??????
> >
> > In task manager: if I am the only user - should all these processes be
> > running? mine, system, local service, network service. And are processes
> > like Mcafee running double? mine and system?
>
> Those other processes are system processes which means that they are spawned
> by the operating system
> most likely at startup before a user logs on or when a service configured to
> start up manually is started.
> You can have multiple threads running of a process. You will see more than a
> few for svchost.exe. You should regualry
> scan for malware and spyware in case there any "bad" processes/applications
> running. Msconfig or programs such as
> Autoruns from SysInternals will show you start up programs. Services.msc
> will show services. --- Steve
>
> >
> >
> > I have my account (and I am set up for administrator rights) and a guest
> > account. I added a user for me with admin rights.
> >
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am new to newsgroups and only
> > think I know enough to tweak my computer myself.
> >
>
>
>

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