Re: Security Policy screwed up????What to do???

BillMadison_at_nospam.com
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:29:48 -0800

Hi Doug,

Well, I told you I was no newbie,...when I copied the
text I made sure that each line had no pagebreaks and
used del to make sure that each line of text that needed
to be on one line was so.
I did that in notepad, afterwards I copied and pasted the
correct text in the inf file. (no word wrap enabled so I
could check)
So that still leaves me wondering and even so if in the
faintest remote possibility that that was the case then
why doesnt the old inf file bring back my settings?

Aaaah, the mysteries of windows I suppose.

Sincerely,
Bill

>-----Original Message-----
>Bill,
>
>My first impression is that when you did the copy and
paste from the PDF into the INF file, you had one or more
line breaks, in the wrong place, since when pasting into
Notepad, it appears there, exactly as it does in the PDF
file.
>
>The instructions say to make sure there are no page
breaks, but it doesn't warn about line wraps, and
virtually every line in the sections to be copied is
wrapped. So, unless you went through and "un-wrapped"
each and every line, this is likely your problem.
>
>--
>Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
>Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
>http://www.dougknox.com
>--------------------------------
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>
>"BillMadison@nospam.com"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:118ee01c3f503$f04e0da0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was reading up on the windows security guide for XP
>> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
>> FamilyID=2d3e25bc-f434-4cc6-a5a7-
>> 09a8a229f118&DisplayLang=en ) and came across some
>> additional settings for the sceregvl.inf file. (page
>> 92/additional registry settings)
>>
>> After I adjusted my inf file and reregistered it I
came
>> upon a major problem. When I opened the MMC editor and
>> went to the security options snap in I didn't see any
>> listings anymore. The whole list had just vanished.
>> Since I know I didn't do anything wrong I would most
>> definitely like to know why it didnt work and why it
>> doesnt show any settings anymore.
>> Since I already used this before on my 2000 box and
never
>> encountered any problems like this I am blaming buggy
XP
>> for this.
>>
>> Even unregistering the dll and reregistering it with
the
>> old inf file I backed up doesnt bring back the list
and
>> still shows up empty. (WHAT THE F... is up with that,
the
>> logic defies me)
>>
>> GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr, what the @#%$# is going
on
>> here. Seems like MS should have stayed with the good
old
>> 2000 code.
>> I've been working with windows for over 15 years now
and
>> consider myself not to be a newbie anymore so I know
that
>> I did everything by the book.
>>
>> Exporting and importing the registry doesn't work
since
>> crappy XP keeps nagging about keys in use so I don't
>> really know what part of the registry he did in fact
re-
>> import so that also didn't help much.
>>
>> Anyone out there who knows how I can make these
settings
>> reappear and why this has happened?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>.
>

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