How to Undo a group policy hidden C: drive on a disconnect..

I have a PC that was formerly attached to a now non-existent network. To
prevent any files/documents from being saved to the local drives, we created
a group policy that pointed the users to a network share to save, and also
hid the local (C drives.

The network was dismantled and the server no longer exists. I have one of
the clients, however it still has the group policy in force. Is there a way
to change it so I can see the local drives again without have to reload the
whole system?

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<Papachungo13.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:EF605825-A425-4803-AC4F-05C58612377A@microsoft.com:

> I have a PC that was formerly attached to a now non-existent
> network. To prevent any files/documents from being saved to the
> local drives, we created a group policy that pointed the users to
> a network share to save, and also hid the local (C drives.
>
> The network was dismantled and the server no longer exists. I
> have one of the clients, however it still has the group policy in
> force. Is there a way to change it so I can see the local drives
> again without have to reload the whole system?
>

The first step would be to use the group policy editor
(start->run->gpedit.msc).

If this won't work, the next step would be to use secedit.exe to modify
security settings.

"Microsoft Windows 2000 Security Hardening Guide"
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/windows2000/win2khg/06tmplts.mspx>

HTH,
John