Sakirik 0 Posted February 10, 2004 Any idea(s) i can use to lockdown an xp machines desktop...from users changing startmenu, wallpapers..etc. I'm currently taking care of a lab that consist of 30 xp machines and its getting very very tiring standardizing em... Oh and they're all standalones thank you in advance Share this post Link to post
SomeDude 0 Posted February 10, 2004 I would that think running gpedit.msc (group policy editor) would get you access to the items you need to make those changes... :x Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted February 10, 2004 Yes, that's one way to do it. Very handy. Share this post Link to post
Sakirik 0 Posted February 10, 2004 thanks guys.... i did use gpedit to do some of the things i wanted. For ex. preventing wallpaper and disabling or removing the display icon in control panel. But still when a student saves a pic (whether jpeg or bitmap), lets say from the internet into the pc. He/she can still make it as the background eventhough i disable things under gpedit to prevent such thing from happening. Another question, is there a way to secure icons that i set up on the desktop so they can't be deleted. Or if deleted then would still be there when user logs off and logs in again. I hope i'm making sense and thank you guys very much for helping.... Share this post Link to post
madacgrav 0 Posted February 10, 2004 you can set a manadatory profile, where they can change what they want but it won't save from log in to log in. Rename the ntuser.dat file to ntuser.man Share this post Link to post
Sakirik 0 Posted April 21, 2004 Alright, i tried renaming the ntuser.....i follow some guides i got off xp tweak...about mandatory profile on local machines. Some of the hold backs i got from doing this....is that i got two notification window about logging me in on a temporary profile...it did mention about no changes will occur after log off. Trying to find a way to get rid of the two messages. Before and and even after i doing this. I can't seem to figure out how to keep my configuration plus home page on IE. Any ideas are greatly appreciated... Share this post Link to post