Gpedit.msc prohibits the running system from being locked. Solution

To ensure the security of Windows XP system, many friends have set the "Run only licensed Windows application" item of Group Policy on the public computer to prevent outsiders. The damage to the system by the program. Inadvertently or in order to prevent others from modifying the group policy, some friends simply excluded the "gpedit.msc" file from being allowed to run the program. As a result, the system was locked, resulting in the inability to run all programs. Install the system. In fact, there are reasons for this, and there are still solutions to this problem.

1. Schedule Task Method

Open "Control Panel" → "Task Schedule", start the wizard to create a mission plan named MMC, the program is "C:WindowsSystem32mmc.exe" . After finishing, right-click the newly created MMC in the task plan window and select “Run”. In the open console program window, click “File” → “Open” in the menu bar to navigate to the “C:WindowsSystem32gpedit.msc” program and open it. Group Policy Edit window, expand "Local Computer Policy" → "User Configuration" → "Administrative Templates" → "System", double-click "Run only licensed Windows application" in the right pane, set it in the pop-up window. Is "not configured". Click "OK" to exit and close the group policy editing window. When the "Save changes to gpedit.msc" query window pops up, click "Yes" to confirm the save, you can unlock.

2.Safe Mode Method

In fact, this limitation of Group Policy is achieved by loading the registry specific key value, which is not loaded in safe mode. Press and hold the F8 key after rebooting, in the multi-boot menu window that opens, select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt". After entering the desktop, enter "C:WindowsSystem32mmc.exe" at the command prompt of the startup, start the console, and then remove the restriction according to the above operation. Finally, restart the normal login system to unlock. In addition, many of the restrictions of Group Policy cannot be effective in Safe Mode. If you encounter a restriction that cannot be lifted, you may want to go to find a solution.

3. Renaming the program method

When setting the "Run only licensed Windows application" policy, you need to add the allowed program to the list, if you remember the name of the license running program that was originally set And in the allow list to add any type of file .com, .bat, .exe, such as only allow "qq.exe" to run, then you can open the "C: WindowsSystem32" folder, which will be mmc Rename the .exe program to qq.exe and run it. Similarly, if you want to keep the limit, you can rename the program you need to run to qq.exe, but others can only run QQ when using the computer. If the list of allowed programs is included with regedit.exe, open the registry, expand the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft WindowsNTCurrentVersionWinLogon" branch, and double-click the Userinit subkey in the right window. In the window that opens, change its value to "C:WindowsSystem32userinit.exe,mmc.exe" to enable mmc.exe to boot. After this modification and restart, the console will be automatically run the next time you turn it on, to open the Group Policy Editor to unlock it.

4.Rename Program Method

Group Policy This setting can only prevent users from starting the program from the resource manager. In fact, many programs in the system can run independently. If you load the desktop process, system service, system screen saver, etc., it is not blocked, so just replace mmc.exe with the above file. To replace the screen saver Logon.scr as an example, first open the "C:WindowsSystem32dllcache" folder, find the Logon.scr file and copy it to the D: drive, then delete the screen saver file in the "C:windowsSystem32dllcache" folder. Preventing the system's file protection function prevents us from changing and deleting system files. At this time, the system will pop up the inquiry window "System file has been changed to unrecognized version, please insert WinXP SP2 CD repair", click "Cancel". Then open the "C:WindowsSystem32" folder, find the Logon.scr file to delete it, and rename mmc.exe to Logon.scr.

Go back to the desktop, right-click in the space and select "Properties". In the pop-up window, click the "Screen Saver" tab, then select "Logon" in the screen saver list, click "Preview" At this time, although the system will prompt to find the selected file, but in the background, the console program "mmc.exe" is started, and the restriction can be set. Note that after completing the operation, it is best to copy the d:Logon.scr file back to the original folder.

5. Combination key startup method

Although all programs in the system are locked, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del can start the task manager. Since the combination key can be used to start the taskmgr.exe program. Then just use mmcexe to replace taskmgr.exe, you can start Group Policy to unlock. Same as above, first enter the "C:Windows System32dllcache" folder, find the taskmgr.exe program and rename it to taskmgr1.exe, then enter the "C:WindowsSystem32" folder, find and rename the taskmgr.exe file to taskmgr1.exe . Now rename the mmc.exe file to taskmgr.exe, then press Ctrl+Alt+Del and you will see that the console program is started. After setting up the group policy, you can restore the task manager back to the original name.