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by minhajlk 2 views

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Hi,

We are a small organization with 25 workstation and one server running Windows 2000 Server. Most of the workstation run Windows 9x, and I get complaints almost daily "Someone has changed my desktop settings" or "Someone has deleted the icons on my desktop" the list go on and on.

I am not an expert in Windows NT or 2000, my question is: Is it possible to implement a policy editor on all of these workstation running Windows 9x through Windows 2000 Server? If possible. How? I would appreciate a step by step guide.

Thank you all,

Minhaj.

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by schitzoid

Sounds like your users probably don't have unique profiles, so that when one user makes a change, it affects the other users, or they're allowing others to use there logins, possibly by just not logging off, or using blank passwords. I'm a little rusty getting it set up, I found your post by searching for some details to refresh my own memory on system policy editor. But for starters, make sure everyone has their own password protected login. In the control panel, open "passwords" and make sureyouv've selected "users can custumize....", and under "user profile settings" at least "include destop icons..." is checked. Then open "users" from the control panel and create user profiles, and choose is you want new or copied folders (new ones will basicly be blank/empty). Please post if this has been any help or not, and I'll try to post again after I get a little more info myself.

by minhajlk

Hi,

Thank you, I shall implement "User Profiles" on the workstations and get back to with the answers.

Thanks again,

Minhaj.

by sanilj

In the windows98 CDROM you will get a software called Poledit.exe. Install this using Control panel >> add/remove software >> windows setup.This gives you a policy editor software and you can really control anybodies system the way you want to control. If u have ny doubts please dont hesitate to contact me.

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