Help! Can't logon interactively

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wutsitallabout

Ok, Looks like I've done something stupid. When logging
on as admin I get the "Can't logon interactively" error.
I'm locked out. Apparently this means that Local logons
have been set to allow none. I do NOT remember setting
such a thing and wouldn't think that such a setting would
lock out the admin too. Is there anyway to recover
without reformatting and reinstalling. I tried to
reinstall over it hoping it would reset things. But it
only wants to do a fresh install, deleting all current
files and folders. Wahhh. I read that on the resource cd
there is a prog that might fix it, but I have 98 on the
this partition and it can't run the resource kit.
So...any ideas? I do have more space available on the
drive where I could install yet another copy of 2K (if you
can even do that). Would I be able to access the locked
system to get my files? That's all I really care about.

TIA,
Agitated to the max on a Saturday night.
 
If you can access your computer via an administrative share from another W2K or
XP computer on the network, you might be able to place a batch file on it that
uses secedit and run it as a startup script to reset it's security settings. If
that is not possible, a parallel install that you talk about should let you
access your data files as long as you do not reformat anything. But I would
first try a reinstall and select install to existing winnt folder where I
believe your are prompted to use L to overwrite existing installation. Doing
that without a reformat would reinstall W2K and should preserve your data and
applications [unless you use EFS encryption]. You would need to reinstall your
applications on top of themselves and you would have a new profile created, but
you could copy your old one over it. Good luck. --- Steve
 
I just enjoy helping out and spreading the knowledge! Glad you got it to work.
Yeah, I don't know why it warns of that - probably to compel one to back up
first, which is always a good idea where possible. I have done enough reinstalls
to know it save the old profile done that way. -- Steve
 
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