the local policy does not permit you to logon interactively

[Guest]

hi

i have a windows xp home edition sp1 running on a standalone laptop and
recently i installed some patches from windows update. upon rebooting, it
prompts me to login ( which was never there previously ), so i login using my
acct without any password ( since i never need to logon before ) and the
error msg appeared:
"the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively"

i did a ctrl-alt-del and then changed the user name to administrator and
tried to logon without a password, instead another error msg appeared:
"unable to log you on because of an account restriction"

i reboot the system to start up in safe mode and then tried to logon using
both accts and the same error msg appeared.

subsequently i start up the system using the xp installation disk to get to
the recovery console. i renamed the secedit.sdb to secedit_sdb.bak and
copied a secedit.sdb ( from a friend of mine who also using xp home edition
and is working fine ) to the same folder /windows/security/database. when i
restarted the system, i still cannot logon.

appreciate any help possible.

thanks and regards

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problems. It appears that there's a lot of users having
this problem, but not a lot of answers on-line "yet." if anyone has any
ideas, please let us know!!!

 

[pjp]

That'll teach ya to use/trust Windows Update.

I'm having the same problems. It appears that there's a lot of users
having
this problem, but not a lot of answers on-line "yet." if anyone has any
ideas, please let us know!!!