Today Wesley Vogel commented courteously on the subject at
hand
I have absolutely no idea how anyone is gonna solve that
problem. I can't speak for anyone else, but I misread
stuff all the time, even when it is well written. Let
alone when someone posts as if English is a second or third
language for them.
You could follow Andrew E's or philip maurice nelson's
advice, they aren't MVPs. *eg*
I will. I far more value the advice and counsel of real users,
and not company shills, whether paid or "volunteer" because
try as they might, they'll always have a hidden agenda. Having
said that, there's time where there just ain't no substitute
for talking to someone who has a pipe into M$. I just wish the
MVPs would at least start with the notion that an OP isn't
stupid, just ignorant of what to do. Then, I'd like to see the
MVPs move on to non-biased advice, particularly germanaine to
the OP's question/problem.
I know that's asking a lot, but hope springs eternal from the
human breast.
Of course not. There are plenty of differences just
between XP SP1 and SP2. And even between XP Home and Pro.
The problem is that a lot of folks don't say which version
they have when they post a question. Then they wonder why
Windows cannot find gpedit.msc when they try to run it.
Part of the problem for any OP, not just me, is that they
don't always know what is important to include and what is
fluff. And, repliers - all of them - often get pissed off if
an OP has vomit of the keyboard, so it is difficult to gauge
how much to say and when.
But, if /all/ of us park our collective egos and company
allegiences at the door and treat each other with respect,
clarifying questions could be asked and answered without
anyone getting flamed.
If I told you to put a bag of microwave popcorn in the
microwave oven on high, for 30 minutes, you might be a bit
suspicious. ;-) Or if I told you to replace the throwout
bearing on your Mopar that has an automatic transmission,
your experience would probably tell you that I didn't know
what I was talking about.
The more someone knows about anything, the better they can
help themselves. Experience counts in everything. An
expert is nothing more than someone who has made most of
the mistakes and knows how to fix them.
When people say a person is "bright" or a "dimwit", what they
really refer to crudely is not just how much inate
intelligence the other guy has, but how much
knowledge/ignorance they have, how much inexperience/vast
experience they have, and none/excellent judgment based on
learning from past mistakes.
What you describe above is actually a judgment issue, not just
experience per se. I could "experience" blowing up microwave
popcorn bags every day of my life and never learn that it is
really dumb to do that. Hence, error without learning and
correction and thus no development of judgment.
Also, each of us is gifted or deprived, as the case may be,
with a very logical mind or a scatter-brain mind. 99 44/100%
of OP threads I see are something totally vanilla like "i
tried to start my computer this moring and windows says it
can't find xxx, what do i do?"
My first reaction is to fix your shift key, my next reaction,
which others have as well is "what the hell did you do just
prior to that?" But, if flames start because of an OP's
ineptness or just - inEXerience - it's all over but the
crying.
Your original question was...
That particular Windows 2000 article applies to Windows
2000, XP and 2003.
I asked because when I looked, I didn't see XP listed. If it's
there, I missed it, I only saw Win2K.
There is little or no Microsoft online documentation of XP
Group Policy and related registry settings. There is
pretty good Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 GP
documentation.
I didn'nt know that, which explains why I so miserably failed
trying to figure out why my new PC and my old one didn't talk
over my network.
Windows 2000 Group Policy Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/200
0/server/reskit/en-us/w2rkbook/gp.asp
Windows 2000 Registry Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/200
0/server/reskit/en-us/w2rkbook/regentry.asp
Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/200
0/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentati
on/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/GPRef.asp
Windows 2000 Policies
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/200
0/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentati
on/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/93213.asp
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Registry Reference
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ
/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/regentry_overview.asp
Jim Boyce has 844 policies in his database.
Jim Boyce - Windows Tips Group Policy
http://www.boyce.us/gp/gplistall.asp
Thanks for all the links. I'll go there and bookmark them.
And, thanks for gently putting me in my smart-ass place
(that's me talking, I'm not lecturing you). Last year, I
bought Jerry Honeycutt's excellent "windows Registry Guide".
It's been a valuable resource.
In the early-to-mid stages of my SP2 UDF disc crashes, I
looked through dozens of very technical books in stores but
failed to get even a hint as to what the problem was because
basically I didn't know enough about the problem to look in
the right part of the indices!
olicy Settings for the Start Menu in Windows XP