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by sed55

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We have taken over a small office, and we have come to find out that the Win98 workstations tell us the following when going into Network Neighborhood Properties:
"Your System Administrator Disabled the Network Control Panel"
Is there any way around this short of reloading Windows? The network is controlled by a WinNT domain controller located about 500 miles away, and the Admin there is not too cooperative. Thanks in advance for your input!

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by oneonlysupermouse

This may or may not help you but here goes. Depending on how tight security is on the machine you could try using tweak ui to edit the settings. You might try editing the control panel ini file loacted in c:\windows\system i think.

by joseph moore

Open Regedit and go to:
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoNetHood

Set it to a value of 0 to enable Network Neighborhood again. A value of 1 will disable it.

hope this helps

by joseph moore

Now, if that does not work, then the NT domain is running policies that are put in place from the Primary Domain Controller. So, if that is the case, you will have to get the Admin at the office to change the security policy.

by sed55

Your comment was exactly the case! The network admin set the policy on the PDC. Thanks for the comeback.

by mmartinez108

This is control by policies. You can undo this by grabbing a Windows 98 CD (full version)

To install System Policy Editor
1. In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, click the Windows Setup tab, and then click Have Disk.
2. In theInstall From Disk dialog box, click Browse and specify the Netadmin\Poledit directory on the Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit compact disc.
3. Click OK, and then click OK again in response to the dialog boxes.
4. In the Have Disk dialog box, select the System Policy Editor check box, and then click Install.
If you want to enable group policies support, place Grouppol.dll in the System subdirectory of the Windows directory on each client computer. In addition, you must make some changes to the registry on each computer to use Grouppol.dll.
You can install group policies during Setup using a batch install script or at any time using the Add/Remove Programs option of Control Panel. Once group policies have been enabled, they are no longer displayed as an option in Add/Remove Programs.
To install group policies
1. In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, click the Windows Setup tab, and then click System Tools.
2. Select the checkbox for Group Policies, click OK, and then click OK again.
Important System policies are based on the content of the registry and cannot be edited with a text editor. To define and manage system policies, use System Policy Editor and other supporting tools.

hope this is a good starting point.

by sed55

You make valid points, but this was not the case here. Thank you for your feedback!

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