Need to restore access to Control Panel on Win2K Pro PC

[Kenca]

I know that this is probably a very simple thing but I can't get Control Panel restored on a PC running Win2K Pro.

Here is the configuration;

- 2 Windows 2000 fileservers and a bunch of Windows 2000 Pro PC's
- All users are set up as roaming

We have one user who has access to Control Panel and I've (as much as I can tell) duplicated the user setup of this user to the one who also needs access to Control Panel on their PC.

The main reason that we need this access for this user is to change the date format.

When I log on as Administrator on the PC in question there is no problem accessing Control Panel and changing the date format but as soon as this user logs in the date format returns to default.

I've tried use MMC to change the PC's configuration but this doesn't work.

I know that I'm missing something; it looks like the access restrictions configuration comes from some setting on the fileserver since no matter what I do as administrator on this machine the settings return to normal when this user logs in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Ken

 

[wolluf]

Date format is user based - if the user just wants to change this once, I'd suggest giving them local admin rights temporarily.

PS. If this is common problem you could set up 'base' profile with correct date format and copy that to new user's roaming profile when setting them up (also goes for other settings you want to be 'standard').

 

[Wirdo]

Have you checked your Domain and Local Gpo there is a setting were you can lock out the control panel(hide and Lockout). Does the user get any sort of msgs when they try to get to control panel or is it just not there all together? Since you can see it fine as local admin, I would check for a domain gpo on that user group or just applied to that user.