First post, by Biscuit Shaped
I just bought an Optiplex 745 from a local goodwill and it seems to be fully operational, though not very impressively equipped (1 gig, Pentium D, 80G hdd etc). On top of that it has XP profesional and Word 2000 on it - completely with clippy the office assistant, which I'd really really like to keep!
Now for the problem... It seems to have belonged to a local school district, and they locked it down pretty hard. I can only get in as the basic windows ADMINISTRATOR user, and I can make changes, add software, add users, change passwords etc... but as soon as I turn off the machine, it reverts back to the point when I bought it.
All new users are gone, any installed software is gone, passwords of existing users are re-reset!
I've even tried going in in safe mode and deleting some of the software that I think is to blame (a Computer Associates security suite) and upon restart, its back again!
I consider myself a semi-competent tinkerer, but by no means an exp3rt h@xor, so do any of you guys have any thoughts?
Oh, and I tried doing a Windows reset, but that utility is missing from the accessories folder.
Thanks for your ideas!