Clear guest account profile everytime user you logs off

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Is there a way to clear the guest profile everytime user you logs off
(deleting any save documents in my document,and the from the desktop, screen
savers And to automatically clear the daily history every to the broswer is
closed
 
"JAH" wrote
Is there a way to clear the guest profile everytime user you logs off
(deleting any save documents in my document,and the from the desktop,
screen
savers And to automatically clear the daily history every to the broswer
is
closed
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I don't have an answer to your question. I know of no way to do this
automatically. However you should not be using the "guest" account for
casual users of the system. That is a special account and actually affords
greater privileges. You want to create a limited user account and have your
casual users use that one. A standard procedure on the guest account is to
disable it.
 
These computers may be used by children and adults. I need to have the
history and profile cleared every time the user loads off.

In Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, the profile for a
member of the "Guests" local group that is not a member of the
"Administrators" local group is deleted after the member logs off of the
computer. In Windows XP, the profile for a member of the "Guests" local group
that is not a member of the "Administrators" local group is only deleted
after the computer joins a domain. If the computer is not joined to a domain,
the local profile is not removed based on group membership.

These PC will not be part of a Domain. What can I do? If I create another
user account how can I set it up the account to clear the profile when the
user logs off and the history when the browser is closed?
 
JAH said:
These computers may be used by children and adults. I need to have the
history and profile cleared every time the user loads off.

In Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, the profile for a
member of the "Guests" local group that is not a member of the
"Administrators" local group is deleted after the member logs off of the
computer. In Windows XP, the profile for a member of the "Guests" local
group that is not a member of the "Administrators" local group is only
deleted after the computer joins a domain. If the computer is not joined
to a domain, the local profile is not removed based on group membership.

These PC will not be part of a Domain. What can I do? If I create another
user account how can I set it up the account to clear the profile when the
user logs off and the history when the browser is closed?
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Third-party software like Deep Freeze from Faronics. Or look at the MS
Shared Computer Toolkit and see if it will do what you want.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

Questions about the Shared Computer Toolkit can be asked in its newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.sharedaccess

Malke
 
These computers may be used by children and adults. I need to have the
history and profile cleared every time the user loads off.

In Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, the profile for a
member of the "Guests" local group that is not a member of the
"Administrators" local group is deleted after the member logs off of the
computer. In Windows XP, the profile for a member of the "Guests" local
group
that is not a member of the "Administrators" local group is only deleted
after the computer joins a domain. If the computer is not joined to a
domain,
the local profile is not removed based on group membership.

These PC will not be part of a Domain. What can I do? If I create another
user account how can I set it up the account to clear the profile when the
user logs off and the history when the browser is closed?
Click to expand...

You could look at the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx
 
You could clear it at logon with a shortcut in the Startup folder to a
batch file that deletes the desired files.
 
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