Help with WinXP and Ghost 7.0.... Can't Log In

IamDavid

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Sep 13, 2000
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I screwed up. :( I was installing Ghost 7.0 to see if I liked it better then Drive Image Pro and I screwed up my user account in XP. Apperently when setting up a Ghost user I wasn't supposed to use my XP account name, sure wish it would have ssaid that on the screen.. Now when trying to log in I get the error:

Situation:
"Local policy of this system does not permit you to log on interactively" on startup

I went to Symantec and this is what it says to do:

Solution:
To increase security, the service account has no local logon capability. For this reason, if you specify an existing user account as the name of the Ghost service account, the existing user account no longer has sufficient rights to log on to the computer.

I don't want to log in with a different user, or create another.. I tried to uninstall Ghost and it didn't help. So can anyone please explain to me how I can grant my user name sufficient rights again so I can log in... Thanks a million if you can help..
 

Scarpozzi

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Logon as an Administrator and give yourself Administrator rights. If you didn't setup an Administrator account seperate from your account, you'll probably have to reinstall XP. It sounds as though Ghost 7 has changed your user rights....once that happens, you can only change them back from an Administrator login.
 

IamDavid

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Sorry, I should have mention I tried that too.. My account now has full administrative rights and I still get the error message... This is very annoying.. :)
 

IamDavid

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I figured it out, Ghost changes the security policy for the account name and denies access thru local system... Just had to un deny myself.. :)
 

Iron Woode

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I find that ghost is not as good as Drive image 501. It makes a full system restore easy.