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I was trying to deny some administrative tools access to certain domain user, so I opened the policies manager and enabled the deny control panel access, and other (including MMC) in local user...

Now, I didn't imagine that the rule will apply to the Administrator too! Now I want to restore the rule, but I think that I disabled the policies editor too...

I don't know what to do. I tried using the domain administrator with no luck, I have the same results... I tried to restore the default local policies settings with this command:

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

But it gives me a message that some policies could no be restored and the log has many "Access Denied" messages...

What can I do?

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    1) Re-install - 2) Take some time to contemplate todays lesson learned Apr 25, 2013 at 13:28
  • So... There is no way back that reinstall. That's so bad :( Apr 25, 2013 at 13:32
  • I'm not saying that it's impossible to recover from, just that re-installing would by far be the safest and fastest option Apr 25, 2013 at 13:37
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    All right. Anyway I really learned a lesson today ha ha. Thanks Apr 25, 2013 at 13:39
  • @MathiasR.Jessen good work at being totally wrong on this one!
    – tony roth
    Apr 25, 2013 at 22:33

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Finally I have solved the issue executing the Policies Editor from the Run...

Run->gpedit.msc

That way, I was able to open the Policies Editor that was hidden because I was Enabled the policy that Denies PC Configuration and Control Panel. I can disable the policy right now...

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