User Login - no desktop

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I am working on setting up a small lab of Windows 2000 in a network
evnironment. Students login under the "users" group, so I have to make some
permission modifications in the registry in order for WYNN from freedom
scientific to work. After following their directions users cannot login.
They just get a blank desktop, no icons or task bar. When going into task
manager, there is no explorer.exe loaded. Administrator can login fine, and
I have tried to make a new user to login to the workstation with no luck.

I haven't found any solutions on the web about this that relates to my
problem. This happened a couple weeks ago on my first image and I couldn't
figure out what I did to cause it. I started a completely new image on a
different machine and have it narrowed down to assigning the User group Full
Control to the root of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. I removed the full control and
gave the users group what they had before and that didn't fix the problem. I
would really appreciate any suggestions you have. Thanks!

 

[Mark V]

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I am working on setting up a small lab of Windows 2000 in a
network evnironment. Students login under the "users" group, so I
have to make some permission modifications in the registry in
order for WYNN from freedom scientific to work. After following
their directions users cannot login. They just get a blank
desktop, no icons or task bar. When going into task manager,
there is no explorer.exe loaded. Administrator can login fine,
and I have tried to make a new user to login to the workstation
with no luck.

I haven't found any solutions on the web about this that relates
to my problem. This happened a couple weeks ago on my first image
and I couldn't figure out what I did to cause it. I started a
completely new image on a different machine and have it narrowed
down to assigning the User group Full Control to the root of
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. I removed the full control and gave the users
group what they had before and that didn't fix the problem. I
would really appreciate any suggestions you have. Thanks!

Additional posts too.

All these would be solved (if you did not also mess with file system
ACLs, NT Rights etc.) by just restoring the relevent registry hive
files for the system (and/or accounts) from backup. Then start over
with the software vendor (if you think they know what they are doing
that is).