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by bashful

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I run a school network (NT4 SP5) and have students (mandatory profiles) who log on and off at irregular intervals. They are usually only logged on for short times (40 minute periods).
My problem is that each time they log on, the system insists onupdating their personal settings which takes up a fair amount of time.
I am now installing Front Page 2000 on a number of the machines and it makes the problem worse.
Anyone know how can I disable this apparently useless function?

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by dvn

To prevent the personalized settings from being created, follow these steps:
Run Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
From the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following key:
\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup

Delete the Installed Components key; and the personalized settings will not be created.

Dmitri

by corky132

Create a mandatory profile, then point ALL the students profiles (in user manager) to that folder.

Rename the file ntuser.dat to ntuser.man. This will discard any changes they make, and pull down a fresh copy of the profile.

Just make sure the profile has been setup completely before making the change, otherwise it will try to reinitialize the profile each and every time.

Hope this helps.

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