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by plsmiley

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Many moons ago, the techs working here installed new PC's around my plant. These PC's were locked down so users couldn't "play". However, they were locked in such a way that even the Admin account has no Administrative Tools option in Programs, and things such as Regional Settings cannot be changed. I either must re-image the PCs my way, or figure out how to fix this issue within 3 weeks. Any suggestions welcome.

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by parbo

I asume this is winnt or win2k. They must have used policy editor to do this. however i think this might require a password (not sure about this). I'm not sure what happens if yo delete the policy file *.POL. If your not able to do this with policy editor you might want to consider an registry hack. Regsnap is a good program to compare registries. Good luck

by plsmiley

Thanks, I'll try it asap!! Never messed with *.pol before ... we'll see what happens.

by army45

There is a program available, just have to look for it, i do have a copy @ home. its called AdminBasher.exe this program will let you overwrite all administrator policies. I'll email you that program when I get home.

by tbradley

You need to go to the server itself, which should have a clear administrator login.

From there, go to user manager, and change the policies for the local workstations.

Once those policies are changed, you can go to each workstation, login asadmin, make the changes.

If for some reason, you can't even get into the administrator account on the server, then an "evil" tech has really set you up.

The final thing to try at the server again, is to create a new user with no policies, but full control of the local machine. Power the PC off fully, as registry changes have to be made, then power on again and login as the new user.

by plsmiley

I like your style, but it won't work for this network. The policy has been set on the workstation itself. Prior tech was trying to surmount the "problem" that all users have been set up to be local admins, per corporate policy. Controlled by a Novell group. Nasty little problem.

by plsmiley

Sorry, all, this is Windows NT running with a Novell 4.8 client over ZEN, with LANdesk running as well.

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