XP User Policies

I've got a problem with policies I've never set. I can not change my Internet settings (homepage, etc.) and I can not invoke the MMC under my user name. It tells me to ask my network admin. I am on a Toshiba 6100 laptop with XP with all the Windows updates done as of 4/16/2004. I do dock and get on our corporate network, too. My user id has administrative privileges, btw. Well, I did ask our sysadmin if he had any policies and said all he did was redirect all homepages to the corporate website and made changing it OK.....after I called him yesterday, he assured me he had removed ALL policies on my UID. SOOOO, I think it's on my box....(I do believe him). So, I signed on as the admin on my box and can not find any user policies set up! The user name I always sign in on is admin privileged, so I can't figure out what the deal is.....any ideas?

 

It looks to me there is a group policy under the the container/object your account is located.

Now it could be set as the domain group policy, or just under your container/object.

So they have exluded MMC from the c prompt and have disabled in IE the changing of IE settings.

They either need to move you to a container that does not inherit settings or to a container without the GPO.

You can check you local policies, if you can access the admin tools in control panel, but I do not remember being able to setup stuff like that as a local policy.

 

Go here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Scroll down to #296
click on it,when the box opens,select open
reboot

This should lift any MMC and Group Policy restrictions

 

Thanks to you both for your help and guidance. I'll check it out and let you know....

--Bart