I have several problems I would like to address that
pertains to a new person logging on to a PC. I would like
to make these changes in the registry with a batch file
on a one time run. I need to know the Keys and values to
make this happen. See items below.

1. Disable the language bar that is turned on
automatically whenever a NEW user logs onto the OS.

2. Disable the Connection Wizard and set all settings.

3. Disable the Windows Tour.

4. Set the Power settings to "Never" when on electrical
power (plugged in).

5. Disable the Standby and Hybernate features.

6. Set the start menu to small icons.

7. Disable the desktop icon clean up.

8. Disable the Hide inactive icons feature.

9. Enable My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places on
the desktop.

Any help on this would be most appreciated..

Thanks in advance.
Tim_S

You can find a sample script for configuring almost all of these at
<http://unattended.sourceforge.net/apps.html#xp-notips>. It is
written in Perl, but the registry keys it modifies are clear even if
you do not know Perl.

- Pat

"Tim_S" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I have several problems I would like to address that
> pertains to a new person logging on to a PC. I would like
> to make these changes in the registry with a batch file
> on a one time run. I need to know the Keys and values to
> make this happen. See items below.
>
> 1. Disable the language bar that is turned on
> automatically whenever a NEW user logs onto the OS.
>
> 2. Disable the Connection Wizard and set all settings.
>
> 3. Disable the Windows Tour.
>
> 4. Set the Power settings to "Never" when on electrical
> power (plugged in).
>
> 5. Disable the Standby and Hybernate features.
>
> 6. Set the start menu to small icons.
>
> 7. Disable the desktop icon clean up.
>
> 8. Disable the Hide inactive icons feature.
>
> 9. Enable My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places on
> the desktop.
>
> Any help on this would be most appreciated..
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Tim_S
>
>

Tim,
If you got this to work please email me at gelatin21@no
spam.yahoo.com . I've been trying to do this as well.

Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>I have several problems I would like to address that
>pertains to a new person logging on to a PC. I would like
>to make these changes in the registry with a batch file
>on a one time run. I need to know the Keys and values to
>make this happen. See items below.
>
>1. Disable the language bar that is turned on
>automatically whenever a NEW user logs onto the OS.
>
>2. Disable the Connection Wizard and set all settings.
>
>3. Disable the Windows Tour.
>
>4. Set the Power settings to "Never" when on electrical
>power (plugged in).
>
>5. Disable the Standby and Hybernate features.
>
>6. Set the start menu to small icons.
>
>7. Disable the desktop icon clean up.
>
>8. Disable the Hide inactive icons feature.
>
>9. Enable My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places on
>the desktop.
>
>Any help on this would be most appreciated..
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Tim_S
>
>
>.
>

Actually it was real easy but it takes two admin accounts to work
1. Create a dummy local account Username1 add Username1 to local
administrators group.

2. Create a dummy local account Username 2 add also to administratiors group

Note: if you already have an account U can use any administrator account
including the system admin.

3. Log on as one of the admin accounts (Username1) and configure the profile
the way you want. When you get this profile ready to go, log off.

4. Log on as the second dummy user (Username2). Note this account will be
deleted so don't worry about setting any settings in here. Open windows
explorer and navigate to "Documents and settings" folder. open the
Username1 profile tree. Make sure you UNHIDE all hidden folders and files
using the menu item Tools>Folder Options and uncheck all Hidden settings.
Next select all folders and files under the Username1 profile that you
configured before. Copy all folders in this folder to the Default Users
folder and other folders you would like to make the same. After this, you
may if you want make a copy of the NTuser.dat file and name it NTuser.man
and thus make everything mandatory if you wish. If not, you are done.

5. Log off as Username2 and back on as Username1. Now, Open windows
explorer and navigate back to the Documents and Settings folder. Delete
Username2 folder.

6. To test all new users, you can log back off as username1 and log on again
as username2. You should have all the settings that username1 had. Thus all
new users will have the same desktop initially. Make their NTuser.dat,
NTUser.man if you don't want them to change anything like background
wallpaper.

Hope this helps.
In a nut shell, you are replacing the default users profile with settings
from another profile. Thus when a new user log's on and does not have a
profile created Windows creates one based on the Default User Profile
settings....






<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:029a01c3ab01$9a4b02b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tim,
> If you got this to work please email me at . I've been trying to do
this as well.
>
> Thanks
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have several problems I would like to address that
> >pertains to a new person logging on to a PC. I would like
> >to make these changes in the registry with a batch file
> >on a one time run. I need to know the Keys and values to
> >make this happen. See items below.
> >
> >1. Disable the language bar that is turned on
> >automatically whenever a NEW user logs onto the OS.
> >
> >2. Disable the Connection Wizard and set all settings.
> >
> >3. Disable the Windows Tour.
> >
> >4. Set the Power settings to "Never" when on electrical
> >power (plugged in).
> >
> >5. Disable the Standby and Hybernate features.
> >
> >6. Set the start menu to small icons.
> >
> >7. Disable the desktop icon clean up.
> >
> >8. Disable the Hide inactive icons feature.
> >
> >9. Enable My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places on
> >the desktop.
> >
> >Any help on this would be most appreciated..
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Tim_S
> >
> >
> >.
> >

Actually it was real easy but it takes two admin accounts to work
1. Create a dummy local account Username1 add Username1 to local
administrators group.

2. Create a dummy local account Username 2 add also to administratiors group

Note: if you already have an account U can use any administrator account
including the system admin.

3. Log on as one of the admin accounts (Username1) and configure the profile
the way you want. When you get this profile ready to go, log off.

4. Log on as the second dummy user (Username2). Note this account will be
deleted so don't worry about setting any settings in here. Open windows
explorer and navigate to "Documents and settings" folder. open the
Username1 profile tree. Make sure you UNHIDE all hidden folders and files
using the menu item Tools>Folder Options and uncheck all Hidden settings.
Next select all folders and files under the Username1 profile that you
configured before. Copy all folders in this folder to the Default Users
folder and other folders you would like to make the same. After this, you
may if you want make a copy of the NTuser.dat file and name it NTuser.man
and thus make everything mandatory if you wish. If not, you are done.

5. Log off as Username2 and back on as Username1. Now, Open windows
explorer and navigate back to the Documents and Settings folder. Delete
Username2 folder.

6. To test all new users, you can log back off as username1 and log on again
as username2. You should have all the settings that username1 had. Thus all
new users will have the same desktop initially. Make their NTuser.dat,
NTUser.man if you don't want them to change anything like background
wallpaper.

Hope this helps.
In a nut shell, you are replacing the default users profile with settings
from another profile. Thus when a new user log's on and does not have a
profile created Windows creates one based on the Default User Profile
settings....






<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:029a01c3ab01$9a4b02b0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tim,
> If you got this to work please email me at . I've been trying to do
this as well.
>
> Thanks
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have several problems I would like to address that
> >pertains to a new person logging on to a PC. I would like
> >to make these changes in the registry with a batch file
> >on a one time run. I need to know the Keys and values to
> >make this happen. See items below.
> >
> >1. Disable the language bar that is turned on
> >automatically whenever a NEW user logs onto the OS.
> >
> >2. Disable the Connection Wizard and set all settings.
> >
> >3. Disable the Windows Tour.
> >
> >4. Set the Power settings to "Never" when on electrical
> >power (plugged in).
> >
> >5. Disable the Standby and Hybernate features.
> >
> >6. Set the start menu to small icons.
> >
> >7. Disable the desktop icon clean up.
> >
> >8. Disable the Hide inactive icons feature.
> >
> >9. Enable My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places on
> >the desktop.
> >
> >Any help on this would be most appreciated..
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Tim_S
> >
> >
> >.
> >