Uh Oh! Locked myself out of Win98SE???

[BobMCT]

As the fly was known to have said... "hhheeellllppp mmmeeee??"

My laptop still runs Win98SE and the other day I reinstalled tweakui as I've used it on some other PC's. I must have set something erroneously because there are TWO things that I'm experiencing and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get back to where it was.

First, if I select Start, Settings, there is NO control panel selection any longer. Thinking that I may have accidentally shut that off with tweakui, I tried the following:
Start, Run, \windows\system\tweakui.cpl then click on OK.

I get a diaglog box stating that the "restrictions in effect prevent me from accessing the task. See the system administrator."

Well, this is a single user PC and I am the system administrator (not that there is one on a Win98SE machine).

Anyone know how I can remedy this situation and get use of my system again?

Thanks,

B

 

[wolluf]

Sounds like a policy has been set - you haven't got Policy Editor installed? (its optional component on the CD - you can add it from add/remove programs, windows components, have disk option - then point to folder containing it on the install CD. It allows setting and unsetting of this type of restriction)

Once upon a time I knew where in the registry this stuff was (un)set, but alas memory is not what it was.

I don't know if the tweak tool x-setup would help (Google for it).

 

[micker377]

Boot into DOS mode. Type Scanreg /restore. You will be given a list of previous registry saves. Just choose one that was before you made the "changes". Good luck, it only goes back 5 changes. If you do get this fixed, there are some "boot.ini" changes to save up to 10 registry saves.

 

[macphoneguy]

If you can pull it up in notepad control.ini there should be a section called [don't load] and simply add tweakui.cpl

 

[BobMCT]

Thanks ALL that responded. The suggestions were all good.
This morning I was able to resolve this. Out of frustration I used regedit and searched the registry for "Policies" and I found one labeled "Control Panel" and it was set to 01. I modified it to 00, rebooted and it was back to normal.

Hopefully this resolution, along with your valid suggestions, will now be searchable for future users in this same predicament.

Thanks again.

Bob

 

[Bugzs]

Forum:

For those of you who are REALLY sick of the lame behavior

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RegEditX 2.0

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Registry Crawler

http://www.4dev.com/regc/index.htm

Check them out and I KNOW you will be happy. Next to

Ghost, these are two of my fav's.

Ben