Limiting Program Access

[TekDeskGod]

Hey - I did a really stupid thing today...
I'm working on some computers in a lab I maintain at our college for the music department. The professor who had "hired" me asked me to lock the computers down so that basically only certain programs and settings could be changed. i was doing fine, until I added a key to allow for program restrictions (Listed as "Restricting Applications Users Can Run (Windows 9x and NT)

I added a string value name under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\curre ntversion\policies\explorer]
called "RestrictRun"

I enabled it by adding setting the value to 1

I did not however add the value names under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\curre ntversion\policies\explorer\restrictrun].

When I rebooted, EVERY application (including Regedit) is locked and I cannot unlock the machine. Do you know of any fixes for this problem?

[jstolz]

Yikes!

Well, how about booting to dos and running regedit with the command line parameter to set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\curre ntversion\policies\explorer\RestrictRun back to 0? You'll need to boot to DOS to get the syntax help--I couldn't get it in a DOS window. Just to save time you may want to put the same into a reg file and see if you can merge it in DOS mode.

Good luck, and regards...