Windows XPsp2 Windows firewall, Group policy

[on-line crash analysis]

I have researched and can't find the answer that works. Simply put, "for your
security, some settings are controlled by group policy" causes everything to
be grayed out, hence no protection. This is my personal notebook, no network,
etc. All updates are installed and Windows live onecare shows no viruses.

I have deleted the firewall branches via regedit, restart, then Gpedit to
set to what I have read. After another startup, it goes back to square one.

I then updated the policy setting via mmc with snap in, but there was
nothing to browse in the policy obkect under this computer. Then, I redid the
settings under group policy wizard for the firewall setting. Back to square
one.

I never installed group policy when I installed a new drive last week, so
don't know what happened. How do I remove/delete group policy settings? Many
thanks!!!

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Do you see a hidden file, 'registry.pol' in %windir%/system32/group
policy/machine or .../user ? Make the folders 'no rights' for a new admin
id, and boot to the new admin. At that point, only the old admin could use
gpedit.

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[on-line crash analysis]

Mark,

thanks for the reply. I found the file. I don't understand your directions.
Are you asking me to create a new administrator first, then assign rights,
then delete the previous admin? If I right-click the machine folder I don't
see how to "no right". Please explain. If I delete the folder, would that
correct it? Is this the result of a virus and someone is operating in the
background, or improper set up.

Many thanks!