The Group Policy failed the logon. Access Denied

Mythical said:

Here are instructions on how to fix it, or at least, how I fixed a computer at school once.

1. Logon to the machine with a machine administrator account (assuming this issue is with a domain account, if not logon to the machine using another account with administrative privilege).
2. Move the machine to a workgroup from domain. (If it was part of one workgroup then change it to another one or join a domain.) You could do this through Control Panel\System and Security\System and then Change Settings.
3. Restart the machine and logon with a machine administrator account.
4. Delete your user profile data (or move it a different location) completely from c:\users. "C" in my case is system directory but if you have a different one then use that one.
5. Join the machine back to domain account (or to workgroup that the machine was originally joined to), and restart the machine.
6. Logon with your domain account that you were having trouble with. Keep fingers crossed.
If all goes well, you should be logged on.

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karlsnooks said:

Yes.

When you say "One of my user accounts ", is this a standalone computer, a workgroup computer, a domain computer?

For the later, contact your system administrator.

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karlsnooks said:

And is the workgroup connected to a domain?

How many computers in the workgroup?

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karlsnooks said:

How many computers in the workgroup?

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karlsnooks said:

These one-liners are to be run at a command prompt.
They will put TXT files on your desktop. UPLOAD, do not paste, the TXT files in your next post.

wmic sysaccount get Domain,LocalAccount,Name,SID,Status /format:table > %userprofile%\desktop\SystemAccounts.txt


wmic useraccount list full /format:table > %userprofile%\desktop\UserAccountsFull.txt

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