Lock WinXP Feautres

You can lock the icons on the desktop by creating your other local user account as a limited user, belonging to the group Users, not Administrators or Power Users.

I guess screensavers and wallpapers are more personal in the developers' mind and the limited user setting does not lock them down. You may find the things you are looking for in the local policies, if you look at the available options under User Policies when you run gpedit.msc.

The settings under User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Desktop - Active Desktop and Control Panel look promising, especially items like 'Prohibit Changes'.

Just be careful so that you do not lock yourself out from changing your own settings, if you cannot tie the policy to particular users in the Active Directory environment.

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