user profiles

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How To Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307800

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Art" wrote:

| Lots of schools need to run one desktop for all users. Not a standard default
| user template. But to actually disable user profiles like you could in
| windows 98. With 2600 users xp takes to long to login when it has to create a
| profile each time because we use a security program that freezes the desktop
| and dismisses any changes to the c: once rebooted.
|
| Does anyone know of a way to disable user profiles or assign a profile where
| everyone uses it and a new local one is not created

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> How To Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307800
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
>
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>
Thanks Carey. These users are actually network accounts and not local. They
logon to a domain. The district analyst has turned off icmp so they can not
obtain a group policy. which even in that i have not found a way to assign a
profile to an entire group. Any other ideas

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I assume you have a server on site?




"Art" <Art@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:99D78FBB-B30F-402E-97CC-5D04384E76D5@microsoft.com...
> Lots of schools need to run one desktop for all users. Not a standard
> default
> user template. But to actually disable user profiles like you could in
> windows 98. With 2600 users xp takes to long to login when it has to
> create a
> profile each time because we use a security program that freezes the
> desktop
> and dismisses any changes to the c: once rebooted.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to disable user profiles or assign a profile
> where
> everyone uses it and a new local one is not created

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"Keith D" wrote:

> I assume you have a server on site?

Yes two servers running active directory. 3 member servers.