re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 11:12 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11847 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here Well it comes down to the SAM file,windows is the only one that has the key(s) to it, without the SAM backup you will need to start over.. Here's free neat tool to keep things in order for the next time.. ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT AND NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer ERUNT=Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP From: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ Read this text page for more info http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT ========================================= Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP v1.1h, 03/06/2005, Freeware Written by Lars Hederer e-mail: lars.hederer@t-online.de Look for the latest version here: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt To find out what's new in this version, please see the "Version history" section later in this file. === Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 10:35 am, mikeherman wrote: >The OS is Windows 2000 pro. I need to give less privileges on the guest account, >for example removing the 'run' feature from the 'start' menu. >When I was in administrator I created a new mmc for local group policies. As I was >disabling things I didn't realize that I was actually disabling them on the administrator >account. When I saved the file then pretty much all privileges were gone. >I found a file that restores group policy, dcpofix.exe. But that is for domain group >policies for windows 2000 server. I need a method that can restore group policies >for a PRO machine that is on a workgroup. >The only way would be to restore some files or do a registry hack.. but i don't know >the procedures. > >Im trying to avoid a complete reinstall because its time consuming. > > > Written in response to: re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (mikeherman: Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 10:35 am) Responses to this message: re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (mikeherman: Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (mikeherman: Fri, Feb 6, 2009, 12:49 pm) re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (DEX: Fri, Feb 6, 2009, 6:30 pm) re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (mikeherman: Sat, Feb 7, 2009, 10:35 am) re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (DEX: Sat, Feb 7, 2009, 11:12 am) re: restoring default group policy on windows 2000 pro (mikeherman: Sat, Feb 7, 2009, 1:23 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum