Group Policy is still in control! Windows XP

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:14

Hi guys,

I've got a formerly networked machine at work that I got from another department. I've removed all of the unwanted user accounts etc. and I am just left with the original administrators account, however I suspect that another user had installed group policy at some stage and has disabled a lot of features that I need; control panel, add/remove printers to name but two. I know I could just flatten it but I really need the software on it, so that isn't really an option

I've tried installing group policy as admin but I get the standard 'you do not have sufficient rights' message that you see in these situations...

Any ideas, I there anyway I can take control of this machine again?

Thanks.

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:23

I haven't got access to a lot of the software mate, some of it was installed from floppy...

The machine is 100% I just need to join it to our domain which I can't do because I'm locked out of the control panel :mad:

There must be a 'Microsoft' way, surely?

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:38

mrbell1984 said:
if it's out of the domain what I would do is take a backup image of the hard disk and then go from there as the only way might be to format it.

There's no policy restore button or anything

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:54

mrbell1984 said:
No there won't be but if it's out of the domain it shouldn't be applying unless it's local group policy.

Yep, its most definitely a local group policy...

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:56

quackers said:
have you got admin rights? Can you get to secpol.msc?

I'll try it tomorrow but I expect I'll get the usual message

slipd · 5 Jul 2012 at 22:59

mrbell1984 said:
if you can access run try gpedit.msc

I know I can't access that - that was the first thing I tried. I can't install gp again either.