Hello MC,
Try out this one (from another posting):
Open Regedit>File>Connect network registry>Connect to the affected host
Connect to your locked-down system as the local Administrator by connecting
to its root drive, which I assume is C. Type
net use \\win2kpro\c$ password /user:win2kpro\administrator
at the command line, where win2kpro is the name of your computer, and password
is the password of the local Administrator account. This connection should
work because now you're performing a network logon, and your accidental setting
denies only local logons. Now that you're logged on remotely as the Local
Administrator, open the MMC Computer Management snap-in, right-click Computer
Management (Local), then select Connect to another computer. Enter your computer
name, and click OK. In the Computer Management snap-in, open the \system
tools\local users and groups\groups\users container and delete Authenticated
Users and INTERACTIVE as members. Both of these members effectively add the
local Administrator account to the Users group (i.e., Authenticated Users
and INTERACTIVE implicitly include Administrator). Click Apply, then Close.
Now, you should be able to log on locally. When you do, open the Local Security
Policy snap-in and remove the Users group from the Deny logon locally policy.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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>>> I changed the local security policy on windows 2000 and the next day
>>> when
>>> I went to log in as the Administrator I got this message saying "the
>>> local
>>> security policy of this computer does not allow you to log in
>>> interactivly." I have tried logging in under safe mode and the guest
>>> account but the guest account was disabled and the safe mode didn't
>>> work
>>> either. Now I can't log in to my computer at all. Is there a way to
>>> get in
>>> and change the settings back or somehow force the computer to log
>>> into an
>>> account?
>>> Thanks,
>>> JM
>> Do you remember the exact change you performed?
>>
> I went to the control panel, then to administrative tools, then to the
> local
> security policy. I went to the local policies, and then to the user
> rights
> assignment. I went to the setting for Deny Logon Locally and added
> Administrators to that list. Then I hit ok and closed the window. The
> next
> day when I went to logon as administrator I got that message.
> Thanks,
> JM