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Policy or Profile Screw-up

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by pricepd 1 view

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I have somehow screwed up the policy on a Windows 98 machine. The machine has cached a profile restricting everything. I can't do anything on the machine. Even when I logon on as the domain administrator.

Is there a way to remove the user.dat file in dos (it seems to be invisible, because I can't see it.) Or edit the registry to not apply the policy.

I have already used DOS regedit to change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update Key to "00", so that policies won't be applied, but they still are.

I don't want to have to reinstall the operating system.

Any Ideas?

Preston

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by stephen.porter

Hi,

I think the user.dat file may be a hidden/read only file, I think you'll need to run the attrib program and remove both of these permissions, this can be done by typing "attrib -r-h user.dat" in the appropriate directory, once that's done youshould be able to see, then delete the file.

by pricepd

Your suggestion was helpful in allowing me to find the user.dat file but it didn't solve my complete problem.
Thanks for the help, though.

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