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More info?)
How are the users logging in, with local credentials or domain? If they
logon with domain credentials, what group memberships (domain and local) do
they have?
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Tim Springston
Microsoft Corporation
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"Matt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:013301c48ebb$563551e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Tim,
>
> Your feedback is really great. Howerver, the problem
> that I am having is that the users display settings is
> set to 1024x768. when the users restart the computers
> the next day, the screen res changes back to 1280x768. I
> started having this problem after I removed the domain
> users group from the local administrator group of the
> workstations. I looks like the screen res is being
> forced by a GPO to change to the higher res..
>
> For security resason I need to remove the domain users
> group from the local admin group and make them power
> users, but then the res has problems.
>
> Please help
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi Matt-
>>
>>The screen resolution is a user-specific setting, and is
> stored in the
>>user's profile (located in Documents and Settings).
>>
>>Although there is not a group policy setting which would
> allow you to set a
>>specific setting for the screen resolution for users
> (this could be an
>>accidental disaster if set to one the hardware doesn't
> support), it is
>>possible to prevent users from altering a predefined
> screen resolution via
>>group policy.
>>
>>In a group policy which linked to a container the user
> objects reside in,
>>and where the users have permissions to that group
> policy, edit the policy
>>and go to:
>>
>>User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Control
> Panel->Display.
>>
>>You can remove the Display CPL from appearing entirely,
> or simply remove the
>>Settings folder tab from being visible for those users.
>>
>>Please repost if we can help further.
>>
>>--
>>Tim Springston
>>Microsoft Corporation
>>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>>
>>"Matt" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:03b901c48c91$a4793550$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Why does the screen resolution change on computers when
>>> users logon. We set the resolution to 1024x768 and
> after
>>> a reboot, the user logs in and the resolution changes
> to
>>> 1280x768
>>
>>
>>.
>>
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