About Local Security Policy

Now I am using the French Windows Vista. The item of Local Security Policy is
in Administrative Tools as usual such as windows 2000 and xp. However, I can
find the Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools for Vista. Can someone
tell me where it is found? Because I need to adjust some parameters when I
use other softwares. Thank you in advance.

> "Zhang" <Zhang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8F56F069-386C-4C94-80FB-550ECE1E722C@microsoft.com...
> > Now I am using the French Windows Vista. The item of Local Security Policy
> > is
> > in Administrative Tools as usual such as windows 2000 and xp. However, I
> > can
> > find the Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools for Vista. Can
> > someone
> > tell me where it is found? Because I need to adjust some parameters when I
> > use other softwares. Thank you in advance.

Which version of Vista are you using? Local Security Policy is not there in
all of them. Try typing secpol.msc in the search dialog and hitting enter. If
that finds it, it is there.

Here's how I get to it (being rather lazy about clicking these days):

Click Start, type

sec

and click Local Security Policy.

That's here in the Uncle Sam version. don't know about France.



"Zhang" <Zhang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F56F069-386C-4C94-80FB-550ECE1E722C@microsoft.com...
> Now I am using the French Windows Vista. The item of Local Security Policy
> is
> in Administrative Tools as usual such as windows 2000 and xp. However, I
> can
> find the Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools for Vista. Can
> someone
> tell me where it is found? Because I need to adjust some parameters when I
> use other softwares. Thank you in advance.

Thank Jesper
What I using is Windows Vista Ed. Familiale Premium. I can not find the
Local Security Policy when I write and enter secpol.msc in the search dialog.
However, I can find it in Windows 2000. Maybe there are not item about Local
Security Policy in Vista which drive me mad.


"Jesper" wrote:
Which version of Vista are you using? Local Security Policy is not there in
all of them. Try typing secpol.msc in the search dialog and hitting enter.
If
that finds it, it is there.

> Thank Jesper
> What I using is Windows Vista Ed. Familiale Premium. I can not find the
> Local Security Policy when I write and enter secpol.msc in the search dialog.
> However, I can find it in Windows 2000. Maybe there are not item about Local
> Security Policy in Vista which drive me mad.

That edition does not come with the Local Security Policy tools. None of the
home editions do.

Hello. If you desire to edit features of the Local Security Policy in Vista
Home Premium via the LocalSecurityPolicy snapin (as XP and Media Center both
had), you'll need to look to the registry.

Home Premium does NOT allow you to install the LocalSecurityPolicy snapin in
the MMC. Try it for yourself: (Start - Run - MMC - File - AddRemoveSnapin -
LocalUsersAndGroups). Attempting to run 'secpol.msc' also results in
failure.

I just upgraded to Vista Home Premium from MediaCenter Edition (upgrade -
not a fresh install), and desired to change the Interactive Login Text that
still appeared, not realizing that I could no longer easily edit it as the
LocalSecurity snapin is not available in Home Premium.

After hunting around, here's the registry location where you can change such
features in Home Premium:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

The legalnoticecaption key is the title of your interactive login textbox
and the legalnoticetext key is the actual contents of the interactive login
textbox.

As for the other keys in that folder, just modify the ValueData as needed to
edit the specific features such as dontdisplaylastusername or whatever else
you wish.

I sure hope someone out there comes up with a hack to get the
LocalSecurityPolicy installed as an MMC on Vista Home Premium - not having it
is a royal pain.

--New2Vista_789

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"Zhang" wrote:

> Now I am using the French Windows Vista. The item of Local Security Policy is
> in Administrative Tools as usual such as windows 2000 and xp. However, I can
> find the Local Security Policy in Administrative Tools for Vista. Can someone
> tell me where it is found? Because I need to adjust some parameters when I
> use other softwares. Thank you in advance.