Re: Very Very Strange Problem

LW_Greeney <LWGreeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for that, we actually went through all them after we looked at
the group policy but did not see any difference whats so ever.

Its actually doing this on the local users on the machines too not
just on the domain.

But the weird things why windows wont load after you give the user
rights to access HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the registry.u

Not sure, honestly - I wouldn't mess with the permissions on that key (not
wholesale like that).
I'd do a system restore to a time before you made that change and start
looking anew.
Perhaps post in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy for more expert help?


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

LW_Greeney <LWGreeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a stange problem which id like someone to answer for me if
possible.

We have a network of around 100 PC' and Laptops, running on a
Windows 2000 Server. All Computers are in teh Active Directory
under there group and so are laptops.

We have just started to notice that when we goto Folder Options and
look at the file associations, all the buttons are greyed out, But
however this is only on laptops which are HP! If we did the same on
PC's they are not greyed out.

Yes It looks like permissions or something in the group policy but
we create a test user and did not place it in any of the PC/Laptops
organisations. And the same happened.

We found that by going into the registry and giving the Domain User
full control of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT solved the problem on some
machine but on a few it would not allow windows to load, it would
stop on loading explorer so you are just sat there looking at a blue
screen waiting for the start menu and icons to appear but they dont.

Does anyone know of this problem and if so can i have some help as
im pulling my hair out!!!!!

Cheers

Alistaire

Run rsop.msc on the workstations & compare the results.



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