remove poledit changes

[soniar5]

I am polediting 28 new machines with win98. Upon trying to set different restrictions for users(eg. myself, no user, and admin), I accidentally locked the "no user" out totally. Is there a way to get around poledit to go in and undo changes.

Thank you

 

[Alt255]

Can't you logon as Admin and use Poledit to remove the restrictions?

Alt255@Vorpalcom.Intranets.com
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[dm7941]

boot to a command prompt, replace the USER.DAT and USER.DA0 in the windows directory with copies from the c:\windows\profiles\[adminuser] where adminuser is the name of a user that has not been policy edited. If you are not set up for multiple accounts on the win98 machine, you can try grabbing a user.dat from a machine with a correct configuration, but the machine should be identical hardware/software config for best results. BTW the user.* files are all system and hidden, so in order to replace/rename/overwrite them you will have to use the attrib command as follows:

change into the directory where the files are
c:\attrib -s -r -h user.* [enter]

this will remove the system, read only, and hidden attributes.


David Moore
dm7941@sbc.com