Control Pannel is Locked Out by Permissions

[starzwell]

I work in a school setting and long ago someone set up permissions in a lab of appox 25 computers to not allow anyone to access the control pannel, and thats the only place network neighborhood is on these computers. They are useing Windows 98 and it dosn't matter who logs in (admin or otherwise no one is getting to the control pannel).

After replaceing a blown drive via a ghosted immage from another computer I could not change the name of the computer, the result is that both can not log on at all at the same time. So really it's like being down one computer.

Things I can't do, just re-install windows, there is a specific prgram that we don't have the cds for to reinstall and purchasing it is not an option, I can't contact the person who set this up either.

The solution needs to be a way to rename the computer. Any ideas?

 

[TekTippy4U]

Start >> Run
CONTROL NETCPL.CPL

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[TekTippy4U]

other things;
Check Control.ini in \WINDOWS for entries under the
[don't load] section, and only remove .CPL entries if listed
(Backup Orig file first and rename it, so it's safe)

Start Run REGEDIT;
drill to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
and look under ther 3 or so subkeys - SYSTEM, EXPLORER, NETWORK and look for a "NoControlPanel"=dword:00000001 entry - change it to [0] or delete it. It may be in Binary (Hex) form, such like
01 00 00 00 - still change the 1 to 0
(1 means enforce, 0 means not enforce)

Other places in REG (SubKeys) - same thing
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies


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