SOLUTION: Security settings corrupt Win2k

[vlovich]

Recently I had a problem that I could not view the users on the system (when adding new users in permission or setting account settings in administrator panel). I came upon this solution that fixed my problems and might fix yours as well (regular registry disclaimer applies)

Open a new notepad and put this in (remebering to change c:\\ to your winnt installation drive in the third last and last keys).

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\LDAP\Clsid]
@="{228D9A81-C302-11cf-9AA4-00AA004A5691}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{080d0d78-f421-11d0-a36e-00c04fb950dc}]
@="ADs LDAP Pathname Descriptor Object"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{080d0d78-f421-11d0-a36e-00c04fb950dc}\InprocServer32]
@="activeds.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{080d0d78-f421-11d0-a36e-00c04fb950dc}\ProgID]
@="Pathname"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{080d0d78-f421-11d0-a36e-00c04fb950dc}\TypeLib]
@="{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{080d0d78-f421-11d0-a36e-00c04fb950dc}\Version]
@="0.0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}\1.0]
@="Active DS Type Library"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}\1.0\0]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}\1.0\0\win32]
@="C:\\WINNT\\system32\\activeds.tlb"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}\1.0\FLAGS]
@="0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{97d25db0-0363-11cf-abc4-02608c9e7553}\1.0\HELPDIR]
@="C:\\WINNT\\system32"

Save the file as something.reg and double click on it (or left click and select merge).

Thanks to:
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBK/tip5100/rh5192.htm