Disabling Group Policy all together

[Jim in Cleveland]

I know this sounds pretty drastic but is there a way of disabling all group
policies with one click of the mouse?! I'm troubleshooting a problem and for
the life of me and I cannot find the GP that is holding this setting that is
affecting a user configuration. I thought if I could stop all the group
policies all at once, there would be no guess work in it. I would disable a
global setting, make the necessary changes I need to make, then turn
everything back on. The change would be on an XP computer in a 2003 domain
environment. The issue I'm working on is I need to make a desktop change on
a user profile. I've opened up the profile (.man to a .dat) and even gave
the account admin privileges. But when I go to make a display change, it
states, "Your system Admin disabled the display control panel". Right
clicking on the desktop has also been disabled. I know it sounds drastic but
let me knwo if it is possible.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Re: Disabling Group Policy all together

Take a look at rows 433 - 437 on the "All" tab then in column G for the
corresponding registry location.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...2F-DA15-438D-8E48-45915CD2BC14&displaylang=en



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"Jim in Cleveland" wrote:
>I know this sounds pretty drastic but is there a way of disabling all group
> policies with one click of the mouse?! I'm troubleshooting a problem and
> for
> the life of me and I cannot find the GP that is holding this setting that
> is
> affecting a user configuration. I thought if I could stop all the group
> policies all at once, there would be no guess work in it. I would disable
> a
> global setting, make the necessary changes I need to make, then turn
> everything back on. The change would be on an XP computer in a 2003
> domain
> environment. The issue I'm working on is I need to make a desktop change
> on
> a user profile. I've opened up the profile (.man to a .dat) and even gave
> the account admin privileges. But when I go to make a display change, it
> states, "Your system Admin disabled the display control panel". Right
> clicking on the desktop has also been disabled. I know it sounds drastic
> but
> let me knwo if it is possible.

 

[Phillip Windell]

Re: Disabling Group Policy all together

Did you create new policies or modify the Default ones?
Hopefully you did not modify the Default ones.
Hopefully you created new policies,...unlink the policies from the OU and
rthe Default Policies will take over and set things back to the original
settings (at least for most things).

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or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"Jim in Cleveland" <JiminCleveland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:83A545A1-98B5-4900-840D-3FC14D718C59@microsoft.com...
>I know this sounds pretty drastic but is there a way of disabling all group
> policies with one click of the mouse?! I'm troubleshooting a problem and
> for
> the life of me and I cannot find the GP that is holding this setting that
> is
> affecting a user configuration. I thought if I could stop all the group
> policies all at once, there would be no guess work in it. I would disable
> a
> global setting, make the necessary changes I need to make, then turn
> everything back on. The change would be on an XP computer in a 2003
> domain
> environment. The issue I'm working on is I need to make a desktop change
> on
> a user profile. I've opened up the profile (.man to a .dat) and even gave
> the account admin privileges. But when I go to make a display change, it
> states, "Your system Admin disabled the display control panel". Right
> clicking on the desktop has also been disabled. I know it sounds drastic
> but
> let me knwo if it is possible.