Local Group Policy Error Message

[John Corson]

While attempting to open the Local Security Policy module in Administrative
Tools I received the following message box:

"The Group Policy security settings that apply to this machine could not be
determined. The error returned when trying to retrieve these settings from
the local security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb)
was:The parameter is incorrect.

All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be
given as to whether or not a given security settings is defined by Group
Policy. Any local security setting modified through this User Interface may
subsequently be overriden by domain-level policies."

There have been no modifications in security settings through Administrative
tools modules nor have there been any software/hardware additions recently
that would cause this to occur. Any help would be appreciated.

---John---

 

[Guest]

To run group policy in xp pro i believe you need the download from
microsoft.# 326469

 

[Mike Kolitz]

John,
I'm not sure if this will help or not, but you could try rebuilding the
local policy database. The instructions are in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];278316

 

[John Corson]

Mike,

Your lead worked, after I copied and pasted a couple files back into the
C:/Windows/Security/database and log subdirectories.

Thanks for the lead!!

---John---

 

[Kelly]

gpedit.msc is available by default in Pro.

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Glad to hear it!
Thanks for letting me know, John!