cannot log on receive error 0xc0000022

My client was logged onto his media center, SP-2, system yesterday as the
Owner Profile (and Administrator) and did the following, which is causing the
current lock-out issue and error code:

He right-clicked on C: and choose Properties. He went to the Security Tab
and chose Deny for each Permission, for “every user group� on the system
including Administrator.

He thought his system was not secure because he saw Allow Permissions for
various Groups or User Names, like Everyone. He thought he was helping…not.

When he restarted, the first thing up is this error: Explor.exe application
error. Application failed to initialized properly 0xC0000022.

And from there, you can only choose OK and the system hangs.

The only thing I can open is Task Manager.

This system is not on a Domain, there is no Server.

“Use simple file sharing� is Unchecked; it was unchecked before this happened.

I’m not sure if you are familiar with the following utilities but I have
them and maybe they can be used to solve this problem: I have Hiron,
Winternals and MiniNT bootable CDs.

How do I reset the C: shared/permissions so that the Administrator and other
user groups can log into the system?

Thank you.

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:46:01 -0700, Core20 wrote:

> My client was logged onto his media center, SP-2, system yesterday as the
> Owner Profile (and Administrator) and did the following, which is causing the
> current lock-out issue and error code:
>
> He right-clicked on C: and choose Properties. He went to the Security Tab
> and chose Deny for each Permission, for ¡§every user group¡¨ on the system
> including Administrator.
>
> He thought his system was not secure because he saw Allow Permissions for
> various Groups or User Names, like Everyone. He thought he was helping¡Knot.
>
> When he restarted, the first thing up is this error: Explor.exe application
> error. Application failed to initialized properly 0xC0000022.
>
> And from there, you can only choose OK and the system hangs.
>
> The only thing I can open is Task Manager.
>
> This system is not on a Domain, there is no Server.
>
> ¡§Use simple file sharing¡¨ is Unchecked; it was unchecked before this happened.
>
> I¡¦m not sure if you are familiar with the following utilities but I have
> them and maybe they can be used to solve this problem: I have Hiron,
> Winternals and MiniNT bootable CDs.
>
> How do I reset the C: shared/permissions so that the Administrator and other
> user groups can log into the system?
>
> Thank you.

There is a bootable CD with a registry editor on it. I don't know enough to
know if that would help.

My disk is labeled PCRegEdit 1.0. It's a bootable Linux disc, but the tool
is for repairing Windows registries.

It's at http://www.pcregedit.com/ - the version is still 1.0 (there's a
button on the site labeled 2.0, but it's the same file), and it's still
free. I have no idea which versions of Windows it works well on.

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