A registry key that disappeared

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Keisha

Hello guys & girls.
I have been poking around a little in the registry on a thin client
running XPe, looking for a way of locking down the client for the
"User" login only, and I have managed to do this by finding the "User"
account under HKUsers\a long character string, and edited this key.
Logged on as "User" and tested the new config and it worked. All happy
now, but when I log in as Admin again, for further editing of this
key, it has totally disappeared!

Can someone explain? Is it so, that when editing one of the subkeys
under HK Users, it disappears??
The settings however are still working, so when logging on as User I
still have the correct config. So it must be there somewhere.
I have searched through the registry after this entire string of
chars, and I find it at some places but nothing interesting........
Has it been renamed, moved....
 
Hi,

If you was to change registry settings for users then you must do same
changes for each user manually.
Or if possible you can make system wide changes somewhere in HKLM is
adequate setting is present.

Regards,
Slobodan

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Keisha,

Instead of looking at HKEY_USERS you may just load a user registry hive
directly. From Admin account, run regedit, select HKLM or HKUS root key and
use File-->Load Hive option. You will want to load ntuser.dat from "Document
and Settings\<UserProfileName>" directory.

When you done with the changes in that user account registry, unload the
hive and log in to the user account.

KM
 
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