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by yagniks

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I use win-xp professional and share the machine with my peers. The settings that I make in Internet explorer do not pass on when other users
sharing the system use Internet Explorer. I need to create individual settings for all users that share the system with me. The settings are related
to Windows-NT server

How can I reuse profiles of users for Internet Explorer ?

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by joseph moore

When you say "settings that I make in Internet explorer," do you mean proxy server settings, so you can access the Internet through a proxy server?
If so, then these settings can be applied on a machine level (for all users who log in) using Local Group Policy on XP.
Please post if this is the case, and I will walk you through the settings.

by joseph moore

Log into the XP box as the local Administrator, and set the proxy settings like you need them.
Then, run GPEDIT.MSC to load the local Group Policy snap-in.
Expand Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer.
In the right-pane, one of the settings is "make proxy settings per-machine (rather then per-user)".

Double-click this one, and set it to Enable.
Ok. Close GPEDIT.MSC, and log off.
Then log in as a user.
The proxy settings you set should now apply to all users who log into that machine. I have ran this before (on 1 user machine as a test) and it did work.
Good luck.

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