the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon inter

[Guest]

I was using my system. I shut down and restarted after installing the latest
microsoft office updates. Now, I get this message: "the local policy of this
system does not permit you to logon interactively"

What the heck happened and how do I fix it?!?!?!?!? I am a local domain user
with admin privileges.

 

[Kelly]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...you+to+logon+interactively&btnG=Google+Search

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[DJ Borell]

I was using my system. I shut down and restarted after installing the
latest
microsoft office updates. Now, I get this message: "the local policy of
this
system does not permit you to logon interactively"

This assumes you are not part of a domain.

Log on as "Administrator". Check that your user account is actually an
Administrator account under the "Users" option of Control Panel.

Then, go to "Local Security Settings" in Administrative Tools. Expand
"Local Policies" and then choose "User Rights Assignment". Ensure that your
user account is not listed under "Deny logon locally". Ensure
"Administrator" *is* listed under "Log on locally" (though, if it weren't,
you wouldn't have gotten this far).

 

[Guest]

I don't have acces to the administrator account - I forgot the password - not
having used it in over a year. Isn't there a way to roll back changes from
safe mode or something?

David

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, did I miss something? I have been looking through this crap for
hours. Thanks for nothing!

David

 

[Guest]

You forgot your Admin password you say? Too bad you didn't create password
reset disk. In case yo havent noticed we are not Microsoft employees here.
Just regular people giving help to people who cant remember their passwords.
Here is the only solution that I am prepared to deliver to you, and to be
honest most likely your only recourse.
Have a wonderful afternoon reinstalling sir.

How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348

 

[Guest]

Touche. I apologize for my response to Kelly. It was the frustration with the
situation showing. That said, I think Kelly's response was overly terse -- It
would not cost much extra time to be human.

It turns out that I did not forget the Adminstrator password. I can't get on
because there are no local user accounts left in the registry, according to a
tech guy I consulted with. Windows blew away all of them.

 

[NobodyMan]

Bad poster! Bad!

Why did you respond to your own post by starting a new one? Now the
original thread has been fragmented into two threads. BAD BAD POSTER!

 

[Guest]

Darnit! And I thought that reading the "polite poster" notes and apologizing
to Kelly would re-habilitate me! No such luck. Thanks for point this out,
NobodyMan!

Now, where's my wakazashi?

MalPoster

 

[Kelly]

Reading polite posting notes and apologizing to me has nothing to do with
your frustration and issue(s). Nor your comment or sarcastic attitude. I
pointed the way, the best I could within the timeframe I have allotted away
from my family.

Speaking of being human, your response directed to me, was equal. That
said, you may be interested within the realm of "your" problems and you are
one person. If you felt you were not greeting in a humane way, I apologize.
However, I answer over 200 posts a day within these groups and private
e-mail from my site and have never heard the same.

Hope XP treats you well from here.

--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[David Rogers]

Understood. There was no sarcasm in the apology.

David

 

[Kelly]

No problem, David. Carry on......

--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Guest]

Things are not always as they seem. Windows does not tell you whether you are
entering the wrong password or if it has just decided to blow away all of
your local user accounts. Likewise, the message "Re: the local policy of this
system does not permit you to logon interactively" is a red herring in the
same situation.

However, thanks to Michael Stevens':

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

which led me to Charles White's excellent article:

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=8658

I now have a fully recovered system. Here are some caveats to be aware of:

1) Before you do ANYTHING, back up the drive. In my case, this was a major
undertaking, requiring taking the 2.5" drive out of my laptop, buying a 2.5"
to 3.5" converter for $6.99 (Hard Drive Adapter - 44 pin to 40 pin IDE) at
Frys, mounting the drive as a slave drive in another system, and using Norton
GHOST 9.0 to back up the drive.

2) Since my system had no local accounts (especially no administrator
account), I was unable to run the recovery console. However, I was able to
perform step 1 of Charles' procedure using GHOST Version 9.0 while the drive
was still installed in the second desktop machine.

3) I then put the drive back in the laptop. BEFORE CONTINUING, note that
when you replace a hard drive in a system, the system might very well decide
to reset the bios, including the date. This can complicate things, so it is
important to make sure that you have a valid date and time in the bios before
continuing on with step 2 of Charles' procedure, which is to let the system
come up in windows.

4) It is very easy to mess up somewhere in the middle of this procedure by
letting Windows come up when what you really want to do is to boot a CD. You
MUST have your full attention on the system as you are doing these steps, or
a little "hit any key to boot from CD" might just flash by before you notice.

5) I think it might be that Charles should alter his procedure to suggest a
mandatory Restore Point restore after step 3, since there seem to be a lot of
other files in the restore point directories, and at the end of step 3 you
have only dealt with the 5 system files.

David