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On Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 8:29 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >I don't believe Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is part of XP Home, only included >with XP Pro. ><p>When you ran mmc.exe and clicked Add/Remove Snap-in from the Console menu then >clicked Add, was there anything like Group Policy Editor listed? If not then you >can't use that method with XP Home. ><p>You could try #3, even though it says it's for Office 2000 only where it says >9.0, you would expand whatever is available in your tree. For me it's 12.0. Then >delete the UserData key. ><p>Before you make any changes to the registry, please back it up. An excellent way >to do this is to install <a href=http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/><b>ERUNT</b></a>. >Let it add an entry to your Start menu during the install process. That will allow >ERUNT to backup your registry each time you boot. It only takes a few seconds and >has no real impact on boot time. Run ERUNT immediately after installing it to create >a full registry backup. >

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