Re: MMC Snap-in Missing

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You do not have a Group Policy, this is available only on XP Pro.

These two items do not come with XP Home edition:
gpedit.msc = Group Policy
secpol.msc = Local Security Settings

Security Configuration and Analysis is an MMC snap-in that provides security
configuration and analysis for Windows computers using security template
files.

Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in is for use with Security
Database Files (.sdb files).

Secedit.exe is a command-line version of the Security Configuration and
Analysis snap-in.

Secedit.exe is apparently available with XP Home also.

For secedit help, open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
Type: secedit /? and hit your Enter key.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:DB984CB1-7360-45CA-89F7-E3A4DA1A6952@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
wings <wings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I am trying to follow the instructions in KB278316 (ESENT event IDs 1000,
1202, 412, and 454 are logged repeatedly in the Application log) to
re-create the local Group Policy file. The article says that you should
run MMC and add the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in to
achieve the re-creation of the database, but this snap-in is not listed
in the selection of standalone snap-ins.

Any ideas how I can get this snap-in?

I should say that I am running XP Home SP2 and this article relates to
Windows 2000 and that I am not having the problems with ESENT that this
article is designed to fix, but I got to the article via KB884018 (You
cannot add a Windows component in Windows XP) which covers the original
problem that I am trying to resolve.

Hope that makes sense. Grateful for any suggestions.

David

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