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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Switzer> Sent: Thursday, 15 April 1999 12:09
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: system policy editor (95 / 98)
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to set up a series of standalone machines with the
> Windows System
> Policy Editor. They will be laptops running Win98, and I want them to do
> the following:
>
> 1. To allow log-on as Administrator or Default User only.
> 2. To auto-play a program when a Default User logs on.
> 3. To restrict the Default User to just the preloaded program and nothing
> else.
> 4. The Administrator has no restrictions and can control the
> Default User's
> restrictions.
>
> I seem to be have managed point 1.
>
>
> By logging on as a default user and using the Policy Editor to edit the
> registry, I have locked the default user down, but now there
> seems to be no
> way of the Administrator getting back in to alter Default User settings.
>
> Anybody able to help?
You should not edit the default user by editing the registry directly, because this will produce the effect you have described. Instead the changes you need should be put into a POL file which can be edited when you are logged on as something else in order to change the settings. For further information visit my home page and click the link "Windows Peer to Peer Networking"
Right now, paste a shortcut of explorer into the start menu of the default user (usually Windows\Start Menu) and then start explorer and browse to a copy of system policy editor (I assume you have not enabled the feature to run only named programs). This assumes you have the ability to log on as another user.
If you can't do this then you may have to restore the registry to the Windows first-time-run-since-installed (SYSTEM.1ST) or reinstall Windows.
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