Run cmd removed from start menu need to get it back

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Ignis Fatuus

I need to get into gpedit.msc but I removed the run box from the start
menu. How else I can I get back into it? I also removed a few other
items that I need to restore but without the run box, I don't know how
else to get into gpedit.msc
Help.
 
If you can access the command prompt under accessories then run gpedit.msc
from there. You could also search for gpedit.msc or use Windows Explorer to
find it in \winnt\system32 and start it that way. --- Steve
 
In Ignis Fatuus had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
I need to get into gpedit.msc but I removed the run box from the start
menu. How else I can I get back into it? I also removed a few other
items that I need to restore but without the run box, I don't know how
else to get into gpedit.msc
Help.
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In addition...

On your keyboard - press the WinKey + R

Then (if you want) type in regedit...
Pound on the enter key
Dig to: HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer/
Find NoRun
Delete it or change the value that's probably set to 1 to 0
Close regedit and you *probably* will need to reboot for it to take effect

(I forget the path but it's in group policy under admin templates
somewhere??? I think?)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Galen said:
In Ignis Fatuus had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


In addition...

On your keyboard - press the WinKey + R

Then (if you want) type in regedit...
Pound on the enter key
Dig to: HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer/
Find NoRun
Delete it or change the value that's probably set to 1 to 0
Close regedit and you *probably* will need to reboot for it to take effect
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Hopefully not as the key should get reset back by policy during
the reboot.
 
My experience is in default configuration that such a key does not get reset
at startup/logon but would take some action that would cause the version
number to change in local gpt.ini such as editing Local Group Policy or
using secedit /enforce. Of course the user would want to use gpedit.msc to
make permanent change. --- Steve
 
In Roger Abell [MVP] had this to say:
Hopefully not as the key should get reset back by policy during
the reboot.
Click to expand...

Hrm... I'm going to have to ask - which means likely good fun in playing
though I'm supposed to be busy right now. <g>

(I snipped - we know what we speak of.)

Anyhow, does it reset automatically? I had been under the impression that
only if there was a specific reason (a polled change for lack of a better
term) would it be reset. In other words that it wouldn't be altered again
until either a set duration had passed or an administrator had made new
changes to the group policy. There are some very deep things with GP that I
still don't even begin to fathom but I try and this is one where I may very
well have mis-read something or just plain have faulty
information/impressions.

If it is automatically polled/changed then my bad. If it's time-based or
condition based then what are the conditions?

I think it's about time that I tinker a wee bit. I had (emphasis on the past
tense) roaming profiles all setup throughout what I call my "lab" which is
different from my "office" and ended up taking it down for the most part
when I reconfigured to add two Yellow Box's to the network to hold data
stores and backup as I simply couldn't get it to map properly and I'm pretty
sure that was a PBKAC type of thing. ;) I even tried to map to IP address
and I am still unsure why it didn't but didn't really feel like mucking
about with it at the time and wanted to toy with my new-found goodness.

For the record the "lab" is a finished basement that shares what was a
walk-in closet that's now temp controlled with the "office" which is really
just an addition to the house with a door to the outside. I moved the power
ingress to the same area while having the addition done. It then made sense
to put everything in a closet and we'd wired the house with CAT5e a while
back and that was already hubbed there so, well, it made sense. I suppose I
could call it the server closet and seem all sorts of fancy but really the
term "lab" is more accurately described as "the mess in the basement" and
"office" is the "place Daddy goes when he doesn't want to be bothered and
needs to get work done." An oddity is the constant addition of new stuff
that doesn't belong to me. Not good stuff or anything but, well, things like
a vacuum cleaner, a stand mixer, and one of those funny looking things you
sit on and move about and it's supposed to give you good abdominal muscles -
that sort of stuff has just seemed to grow into the corner. Maybe it's a
hint - I'm supposed to cook, clean, and exercise? Pfft... So no, nothing at
all fancy really but it's fun to play with and I tagged most everything so
it's pretty easy to move around and swap stuff in and out.

Ah well, that's enough digression for one public newsgroup posting.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Steve made a good point, that it would not see a version change
and so "believe" that all reg keys are as they should be - unless -
and Steve indicated this also by reference to being in a default
condition - unless the policy has been set that makes the sce
engine reapply policy anyway. As you tinker you will come to
see the dark nature of group policy, by which I mean the absence
of public documentation about some aspects of its implementation.
When seeing a version change (or always when set to reapply
anyway without regard to version) the settings from the GroupPolicy
folder get processed and stamped into the registry (and other places)
at the default 90 minutes and/or startup for machine policies and login
for user policies (plus the shutdown/logoff). Hence, in case of this
thread, if poster tweaked a reg key with Policies in its path, without
also making a change in the security.sdb or adm info, then that change
will eventually get overwritten by what policy says should be.

A couple yellow boxes can cause that much change ??!
Just don't let them start referring to the lab as the dungeon :)
 
In Roger Abell [MVP] had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Steve made a good point, that it would not see a version change
and so "believe" that all reg keys are as they should be - unless -
and Steve indicated this also by reference to being in a default
condition - unless the policy has been set that makes the sce
engine reapply policy anyway. As you tinker you will come to
see the dark nature of group policy, by which I mean the absence
of public documentation about some aspects of its implementation.
When seeing a version change (or always when set to reapply
anyway without regard to version) the settings from the GroupPolicy
folder get processed and stamped into the registry (and other places)
at the default 90 minutes and/or startup for machine policies and
login for user policies (plus the shutdown/logoff). Hence, in case
of this thread, if poster tweaked a reg key with Policies in its
path, without also making a change in the security.sdb or adm info,
then that change will eventually get overwritten by what policy says
should be.
A couple yellow boxes can cause that much change ??!
Just don't let them start referring to the lab as the dungeon :)
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Much thanks. I'm going to hammer on it a bit and see what I'm missing for
additional information. I *might* even cheat and see what comes of it by
doing it virtually. As for the Yellow Boxes I think it might have been a
combination of my own lack of standards - I'm a narrowband user with but two
phone lines to multilink at best of times - and my lack of patience. They
had an "opening" special with 1 TB each and a limit of two so, well, I got
two. The price - even now - is VERY acceptable for the feature set and
performance. I suppose the correct term would have been "machine" but you
can get one and call it what you want at a VERY good price considering. (It
targets small business - low IT staffed - folks really.) yellowmachine.com
is the URL if you want to take a peek. They're, of course, bigger and better
now than when I picked them up and I'm sure the price has dropped.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
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