Accidentally applied local group policy to all user groups

[jwylie]

I was setting up local group policies on a laptop so I could apply them to non-admin accounts. Well I goofed and accidentally applied the policies to all users including the admin. The problem is I was restricting access to all programs except a certain few like internet explorer, remote desktop, etc as users will only need to access their webmail and remote desktop to access the terminal server. Now I cannot do anything with the admin profile because the policy was applied to my account as well. What can I do??

 

[Gator]

Which Administrator account did you apply this to? The default or did you enable the built-in Administrator account and apply it to that also?

If you didn't go through any steps to activate an admin account previously, you could probably enable the built-in one and change the settings for the normal Administrator account.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html

 

[jwylie]

Thanks for the info but I actually tried to activate that account but since part of the policy restricted users from all but certain applications I wasn't able to access what is needed to activate that admin account.

After some trying I was able to boot from a CD and restore back to a previous version from a few days ago.