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Thanks guys. But I didn't get a chance to try the method you suggested. What happen was when the user log in to the domain today, it works fine and it didn't have any restrictions. It is odd and I still didn't understand. But the link u guys provided is very helpful. Thank you again.

Thanks guys. I had a look at local gpedit.msc and nothing is defined. So I guess all the restricted access setting might be done by changing the registry. And because there are so many restricted items, there is no way for me go through registry's each entry to identify what has been changed and what has been not. Btw, when the local administrator log on to the local work station or the domain admin log on the domain from this PC, nothing has restricted. But if users log on to the domain or lcoal, it has been restricted. Any other work around?

I am a field engineer and this was quite humiliated when I could finish the job properly at customer's site. I was requested to configure 3 computers to their network. It doesn't sound hard and it shouldn't be as well. These 3 PC's were on the other company's network. They are brought to this company now and need to be configured to the new domain. So I just did my text book routine: change the domain, reboot, move the new computer to correspondent OU, create new users who gonna use these 3 machines and put them in proper OU. Then one of the PC has this funny behaviour. When the user log on, it has this fully restricted interface, like people does with the group policy or registry. It has very simple start menu, which has only "program" and "search". You can only "logoff", you don't have access to any post-installed application like Office. It doesn't allow right click anywhere, and much more. I made the user to local admin and it didn't change anything. If I logged on as a domain admin to that PC, it gave me full access to applications and desktop. I thought this is because of the domain policy but I couldn't see any evidence. And it also doesn't happen to any other machine. But if it is identical to local policy, how come local admin won't work but domain admin works. I couldn't think about any way unless make the user domain admin. Any advice is welcomed. Thank you! Also, a old HP laserjet 4 with a Netgear ethernet interface card, how do I know what IP address this printer is getting? I checked the printer menu and it doesn't have option to print a report which shows IP coz it was not designed as a network printer. I also checked the Netgear interface card and it doesn't have any button on it to print a report. Help help help!

Lucky that we are not using that APC software. However don't why somehow it was sitting in the service list.

Thanks guys for your help. Eventually we solved the problem. This is how we did it. The lastest error we got is "Service Database IS Currently Locked" when we double click any service from the service manager. Windows Installer Service is not in the list. We run command line "winmsd.exe" to find out why. There is a UPS service "APC manager" playing up. All the services state suppose to be either Started or Stop except that APC Manager. It is under Stopping state. We change its registry entry HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\service name\start, type 0x4 in the data box to change the start up type to disable. Restart the computer. After restart, we can access the Services with no trouble. We run the Windows Installer again and it came out under the service. It's working again and we were be able to install the AV.

At first the anti virus software won't install, so we looked at the windows installer service. It is set mannual as system default. To do a test, we click start to mannually start the service. The service didn't start and it hang. Since then, We did most of things according to this refence http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555175/en-us Nothing helped and after we mess around with windows installer files, it is just gone from the services control panel applet. Now we are stuck and don't know what's the next

Oh My GOD!!!Then that's very serious problem now. The NT is our Notes server and 2000 is our Database server. It gonna takes ages to put all the stuff back-__-.Please tell me no...

Originally Trend ServerProtect nomal servers(one NT 4.0 SP6 and one 2000 SP4) lost connection to its central infromation server. Couldn't fix that so I uninstalled Trend on normal servers and tried to reinstall it. The installation always hang so I decided to have a look at Windows Installer Service. The service was set to Manual as default but I couldn't start the service. Realize it became a Windows Installer Service issue, I refered to many Microsoft Doco to try to reinstall the service. I tried reboot the server a few times, un-register and re-register the service under safe mode and normal mode, copied the fresh installed Windows Installer 2.0 files to the problem machine to overwrite the existing files. None worked. Now I cannot see the Windows Installer Service from the system service list. Anyone could give me some idea about recover corrupted Windows Installer Service?