WinME: Restricted from Control Panel & Registry

[SpeedsterTX]

I have this guys laptop and I set it not to use profiles...well now when it boots up it goes right to windows and I am restricted from most of the control panel and from editing the registry. I've been trying for two days to find a way to get it to let me login as the adminstrator, but no luck. Anyone know how i can get access back?

Thanks!
Shane

 

[xkjdhdg]

I thinking you friends computer has lockout desktop program loaded on it. You would have to have the password for that program to get to the items you want.

 

[Kento]

Yeah a lockout program is possible. But i'm assuming you have permission to have this laptop? You said you were restricted from most of the control panel and from editing the registry? I'm assuming you can get to the control panel but you just can't access certain applets? What are the exact errors you're getting? But you should still be able to get to the applets. Click start--find files--and search for *.cpl including the asterisk. Then click on each cpl file listed to access them. Appwiz.cpl is for add/remove, desk.cpl is for display properties, etc.

If you can't open regedit then try renaming regedit.exe to regedit.com then click on it. Does it open? If not what error does it give? Here's another thing you could check which I saved from some site. It's probably the same in ME: Click Start>Run>poledit>File>Open Registry>Local User>Windows 98 System>Restrictions>Disable Registry Editing Tools

 

[SpeedsterTX]

Haha, yes I am supposed to have this laptop. I played around with it enough and now I got it back to normal. I replaced the user.dat file with the user.dat that I found in the profile he had created. After that I could get into everything. So now I'm starting to load the software he wanted. It still acts a little funny but I think I will be able to do everything. Thanks for your help. I'm sure I will need it in the future.