Very Very Strange Problem

[Guest]

I have a stange problem which id like someone to answer for me if possible.

We have a network of around 100 PC' and Laptops, running on a Windows 2000
Server. All Computers are in teh Active Directory under there group and so
are laptops.

We have just started to notice that when we goto Folder Options and look at
the file associations, all the buttons are greyed out, But however this is
only on laptops which are HP! If we did the same on PC's they are not greyed
out.

Yes It looks like permissions or something in the group policy but we create
a test user and did not place it in any of the PC/Laptops organisations. And
the same happened.

We found that by going into the registry and giving the Domain User full
control of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT solved the problem on some machine but on a
few it would not allow windows to load, it would stop on loading explorer so
you are just sat there looking at a blue screen waiting for the start menu
and icons to appear but they dont.

Does anyone know of this problem and if so can i have some help as im
pulling my hair out!!!!!

Cheers

Alistaire

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I have a stange problem which id like someone to answer for me if
possible.

We have a network of around 100 PC' and Laptops, running on a Windows
2000 Server. All Computers are in teh Active Directory under there
group and so are laptops.

We have just started to notice that when we goto Folder Options and
look at the file associations, all the buttons are greyed out, But
however this is only on laptops which are HP! If we did the same on
PC's they are not greyed out.

Yes It looks like permissions or something in the group policy but we
create a test user and did not place it in any of the PC/Laptops
organisations. And the same happened.

We found that by going into the registry and giving the Domain User
full control of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT solved the problem on some
machine but on a few it would not allow windows to load, it would
stop on loading explorer so you are just sat there looking at a blue
screen waiting for the start menu and icons to appear but they dont.

Does anyone know of this problem and if so can i have some help as im
pulling my hair out!!!!!

Cheers

Alistaire

Run rsop.msc on the workstations & compare the results.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that, we actually went through all them after we looked at the
group policy but did not see any difference whats so ever.

Its actually doing this on the local users on the machines too not just on
the domain.

But the weird things why windows wont load after you give the user rights to
access HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the registry.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Thanks for that, we actually went through all them after we looked at
the group policy but did not see any difference whats so ever.

Its actually doing this on the local users on the machines too not
just on the domain.

But the weird things why windows wont load after you give the user
rights to access HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the registry.u

Not sure, honestly - I wouldn't mess with the permissions on that key (not
wholesale like that).
I'd do a system restore to a time before you made that change and start
looking anew.
Perhaps post in microsoft.public.windows.group_policy for more expert help?