Group Policy error pop-up when editing local policy

[Guest]

I just completed a "distructive" recovery on my home desktop that uses XP
pro. Unfortunately, I am undergoing a host of odd issues i didn't expect by
doing a complete recovery, anyway that's another cluster I'm dealing with.

Anyhow, my current irritation is while trying to update the local securiy
policy, I keep getting a popup that begins : "The Group Policy security
settings that apply to this machine could not be determined.". I am home. I
am NOT on a domain. I am only on my home "lan" that does nothing more that
connect my husband's pc (xp home), my printer, and my pc via a router. No
server is involved. I configure security policy individually on each
hardware. Why am I getting these popups and how can I make it STOP. I've
tried to find solutions, but it's an archeological expedition and the closes
thing I get is lenthy articles on Win2000, Win2003, or Vista that don't tell
me directly how to fix this. Please help! Thanks in advance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I just completed a "distructive" recovery on my home desktop that
uses XP pro. Unfortunately, I am undergoing a host of odd issues i
didn't expect by doing a complete recovery, anyway that's another
cluster I'm dealing with.

Anyhow, my current irritation is while trying to update the local
securiy policy, I keep getting a popup that begins : "The Group
Policy security settings that apply to this machine could not be
determined.". I am home. I am NOT on a domain. I am only on my
home "lan" that does nothing more that connect my husband's pc (xp
home), my printer, and my pc via a router. No server is involved. I
configure security policy individually on each hardware. Why am I
getting these popups and how can I make it STOP. I've tried to find
solutions, but it's an archeological expedition and the closes
thing I get is lenthy articles on Win2000, Win2003, or Vista that
don't tell me directly how to fix this. Please help! Thanks in
advance.

Look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278316

Don't believe that to be the fix?

Start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK
In the now opened command prompt, type:

esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb

Press "Enter".

Come back - let us know.

 

[Guest]

Shenan,
This definately did the trick! Thank you very much.
s.