In Windows NT 4.0 if you deleted a policy, it did not remove any of the policy put into place. Thankfuly they have changed this in Group Policies in Windows 2000. In answer to your question, you will have to create a new policy, exactly like your old one. What you will have to do then is make sure that where in the past you had a check mark, you now have a clear white box. There are three states in a policy with policy manager. Checked and the policy is processed, grey'ed and the policy is left in the state it is currently in, either on or off ( No processing is done for this item). Finlay white, the policy is to be removed. Once the policy update is run and your items cleared out, you will want to change those states back to a grey item as it will quicken logon time because they are no longer processed. Or you may remove the policy file all together.
Policies are applied as follows:
? If the box is checked, it is implemented. When the user next logs on, the user?s computer conforms to the policy. If the option was checked the last time the user logged on, Windows NT makes no changes.
? If the box is cleared, the policy is not implemented, and if the settings were previously implemented, they are removed from the registry.
? If the box is grayed, the setting is ignored and unchanged from the last time the user logged on. Windows NT does not modify this setting. The grayed state ensures that Windows NT provides quick processing at system startup because it does not need to process each entry every time a user logs on.
Policies are applied as follows:
? If the box is checked, it is implemented. When the user next logs on, the user?s computer conforms to the policy. If the option was checked the last timethe user logged on, Windows NT makes no changes.
? If the box is cleared, the policy is not implemented, and if the settings were previously implemented, they are removed from t
