Need help restoring desktop settings

Win 10 Pro

I have a childish coworker who decided that he liked messing with my desktop. So I created an admin account and locked down the desktop settings and changed my regular account to a standard user. All was fine for a while but evidently this was a challenge to his manhood and today when I came into work, my desktop was changed again. How he did it, I don't know.

Of course, things are locked down so I can't change them back. I made my account an admin again but still can't change things.

What's worse is that I can't recall how I locked things up in the first place.

Any suggestions from the gurus?

dalchina said:

If only you have access to the admin account and your colleague has a standard account, they should not be able to override group policy settings.

The PC has two accounts. Admin which I created and set the password and a generic standard user account with no password. I don't know how he got past the restrictions that I put on the account. If he has mad computer skills, he's wasting his time here delivering appliances.

Thanks for your help. Now that I look at things again, I did use the group policy editor to set the restrictions. I got everything back to the way that I want it.

I'm still wondering how he managed to change settings. Is it possible that he used regedit to change things? I have locked down regedit now as well.

Learn something new everyday. I never knew that there was a built in/hidden administrator account. Just this morning, I was wondering if there was such a thing.

I set a new password for the Administrator account and I've changed the password for the visible Admin account to a 23 character password.

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