Re: Local Group Policy

Take a look at Bart's PE. This creates a bootable disk, that will run independently of the hard disk. You can also run Command Prompt, Regedit and other utilities directly from the GUI.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

You may also want to look at Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD)

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

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"LeRoy Vanek" <LeRoyVanek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3E1426CD-0432-4CA8-B7EB-416456369779@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oh ya i took away there command propt also :-) mine went away along a/them....

"Leander de Graaf" wrote:

LeRoy Vanek wrote:
> is there a way to edit registry besides using run command? as it is > also
> removed from my start menu as admin or a user account
>
>
> "Leander de Graaf" wrote:
>
>> LeRoy Vanek wrote:
>>> Ok, I work for local hospitol in ohio. Yesterday i was setting up a >>> PC with
>>> XP Pro for patients to use. Well i don't want it joined to our server >>> 2k3
>>> domain just a workgroup and some local GPO's. I didnt think when i >>> was going
>>> through and setting my GPO settings that i was locking my admin >>> account down
>>> as well. But i have i realized it this morning when i remembered i >>> wanted to
>>> modify something. Logged in as admin and can't do much. I can not >>> undo the
>>> GPO because i set do not open mmc in author mode :-(.
>>> I need to figure out how to remove the gpo settings from the admin >>> account
>>> or anyway to undo settings so i can administer the PC again.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> LeRoy,
>>> CIW,A+,Net+,MCP,MOS
>> Sounds like a challenging one there, maybe you should try to disable >> GPO
>> functionality in the registry editor:
>>
>> * Create DWORD DisableGPO if it doesnt exist in location
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
>> * Give your newly created registry key the value 1 (default value is 0
>> which means the functionality is enabled)
>> * Restart computer
>> * Change/remove troublemaking GPO(s) in question
>>
>> Hopefully this will help.
>>

Is the command prompt also disabled? If it is you have succeeded in
locking yourself out. There is a way to run commands with a custom made
shell which i got source code on, but you are probably better off
reinstalling the machine as it sounds like you lost any control of it.


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