Help! I lost secpol

[KarlosSultana]

Hi all,

I'm new to the whole en-Lite-ened side of Windows - I always had plenty of harddisk space to cope with the pre-Vistas - but I decided to try vLite because my Laptop's system-partition is only 50gigs and Vista was unscrupulously using 15 of them...

Anyway, I thought I was being pretty cautious but somehow I made an installation that doesn't contain secpol.msc - apparently this was a big mistake as I don't seem to be able to get programs to run with elevated status and so can't install my touchpad driver... or even vLite(!)

Could anyone tell me which Windows component I removed that would account for this? Or does anyone know how to run elevated operations without secpol?

[aviv00]

try to restore it from the install.wim

[KarlosSultana]

Hi aviv00, thanks for the reply... could you tell me how to do a restore from install.wim?

[aviv00]

well its should be there

u could open it easily with gimagex or z7

Edited March 2, 2008 by aviv00

[nuhi]

As far as I know no component in vLite removes secpol.msc.

I ran it now on my heavily trimmed install and it works.

We are talking about the Local Security Policy?

Try locating it in the Administrative Tools.

[KarlosSultana]

@aviv00: Wow I'm glad 7Zip opens WIMs, I was toying with the notion of having to download the Windows Automated Installation Kit for a minute there (over 1GB!)

I'm afraid I haven't fixed the problem though - upon copying secpol.msc to System32 and running it I get the Microsoft Management Console window opening with the message "MMC could not create the snap-in" shown in the right-hand panel.

@nuhi: Thanks for joining in - my problem sounds very suspicious if you don't think vLite should ever be removing secpol.msc... I know it definitely wasn't there because I tried to run it from the Run prompt first of all. I've also looked in System32 manually now, when copying across from install.wim, and there isn't even a shortcut for Local Security Policy in my Administrative Tools folder. Also, I just noticed, secpol.msc doesn't exist inside the install.wim on my VistaLite disc!

I'll try making another copy and hope that this time I don't get the same problem...

I'm going to remove the following components; if anyone thinks any of these options is particularly unwise please let me know... Thanks

Accessories -> Accessibility, Speech Support

Drivers -> Display adapters, Diva Server, Modems, Printers, QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter, Scanners, Sound controllers

Hardware Support -> Dynamic Volume Manager, Firewire, Smartcards

Languages -> All

Multimedia -> Media Center, Movie and DVD Maker, Music and Video samples, Screensavers, Windows Calendar

Network -> All

Services -> Error Reporting, Microsoft DFS Replication, Remote Registry

System -> Manual Install, Parental Controls, Tablet PC, Windows Easy Transfer

[KarlosSultana]

Hi, ok I made another ISO with the settings shown above, I applied these using the "Rebuild one (Home Premium)" option, then I mounted the image on a virtual drive and examined install.wim with 7Zip:

Once again there is no secpol.msc! The path I'm looking under is G:\sources\install.wim\1\Windows\System32

What am I doing wrong??

[nuhi]

Then only obvious answer is that there is no secpol in Vista Home editions.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...22074437AAFnAq0

[KarlosSultana]

Ha, wow I didn't see that coming... I was just applying the "Rebuild one (Home Premium)" setting with no components set for removal when I saw your post. Indeed the resulting install.wim does not contain secpol.msc. Having done a clean install from the original Vista disc I also see that it does not contain secpol.msc.

I have to say sorry for the getting the issue wrong from the word go; elevated status seemed to be directly linked to secpol according to the web but I obviously didn't think to search for Home Premium-specific info.

So the problem with elevated status when installing my touchpad driver and vLite has to be with something else that was removed. I haven't ran into this problem when running the touchpad driver on the install from the original Vista disc...

Have to try burning another image and re-installing I guess. Thanks for the info!