Locked out of my MMC

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Scott

Unfortunately I've done something rather stupid and
possibly destructive. I believe I was in the Local policy
for my users and I disabled authoring mode for the MMC.
Now I've effectively locked out anyone from opening it
including myself, the Admin. This is on my own computer
and I was just goofing around because I'm taking a class
so it not of dire importance but I was just wondering if
this can be fixed or just chalked up as a major f-up.
 
I am not sure this will help but just a thought. I
believe you can change security features from a command
line with the "secedit" utility. Check out the
documentation for it and see if it helps. If I knew more
about it myself I would make some suggestions.
 
See KB link below as a possible solution that may or may not work for your particular
situation. Another thing that should work is to use another computer on the network
to access your Group Policy remotely to change it back to allow yourself access. You
would need to run mmc on another network computer and then when you select the Group
Policy snapin in it will prompt you if you want to manage this computer or another
computer. Select another computer and go from there. Learn how to back up your System
State every so often! --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;it;263166
 
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