local group policy : snap-in failed

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[ news_user ]

Hallo,

I use Windows XP Professional [german language edition](patches are up to
date
(SP2))

My local group policy edor fails to load!

On calling it i get following error:

Microsoft Management Konsole
Snap-In konnte nicht initialisiert werden.
Name:Gruppenrichtlinie
ClSID:{8FC...1E3}

This means "snap-in local group policy fails to load"

Next are some steps i tried to solve the problem:

In case i try to add the local group policy snap in via the MMC console:

You are right in the place where you select the snap-ins. in the first
column the snap-in names are listed. in the second column the "source" is
listed. at most of the snap-ins "Microsoft coporation" is listed there.

group policy is listed as snap-in but the "source" column is empty.
probably this is a hint for the error source?

o:k: in case i try to add the snap-in i get the same error message like
above ("snap-in failed...")

Next thing i tried was to register the service directly via commandline:


regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\gpedit.dll
//LoadLibrary ("C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.dll") fehlgeschlagen - Das
angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.
//LoadLibrary ("C:\WINDOWS\system32\gpedit.dll") failed - the module was
not found

gpedit.dll is on my system! version is 5.1.2600.2180. so what is the
problem here?

probably a missing registry key?
i did a search in the whole registry for gpedit.dll:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0FDE5092-AA2A-11D1-A7D4-0000F87571E3}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4F637904-2CAB-4F0E-8688-D3717EBD2975}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{63E23168-BFF7-4E87-A246-EF024425E4EC}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6DC3804B-7212-458D-ADB0-9A07E2AE1FA2}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8FC0B734-A0E1-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D70A2BEA-A63E-11D1-A7D4-0000F87571E3}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EA502722-A23D-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,47,00,50,00,\
45,00,64,00,69,00,74,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU\dll]
"a"="E:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\Programming\\Desktop\\gpedit.dll"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU]
"e"="explorer /select,%systemroot%\\system32\\gpedit.dll\\1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns\{63E23168-BFF7-4E87-A246-EF024425E4EC}]
"NameStringIndirect"="@gpedit.dll,-1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns\{6DC3804B-7212-458D-ADB0-9A07E2AE1FA2}]
"NameStringIndirect"="@gpedit.dll,-4"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns\{8FC0B734-A0E1-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3}]
"NameStringIndirect"="@gpedit.dll,-1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns\{D70A2BEA-A63E-11D1-A7D4-0000F87571E3}]
"NameStringIndirect"="@gpedit.dll,-1"

probably a needed service is not running? which services are needed to
start gpedit?

probably the local group policy object is destroyed? How can i check this?

how can i reinitialize the local group policy object?
For Windows 2000 there is a tool called dgpofix.exe to reinitialize the
local roup policy object. How can i do this under Windows XP?
 
N

[ news_user ]

Hello,

I solved it!

In an attempt to solve the problem i had renamed the
%windir%/security/database/secedit.sdb to secedit.sdb.old.

i forgot that! -> now renamed it back to secedit.sdb

see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894351/EN-US/

for information how to verify and reset your local group policy object on
win XP.
 

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