Question regarding Windows Applications Settings

[ethraax]

So when you log in to a computer at my school for the first time, you get a ton of messages that looks like:

"Loading personalized settings for windows media player"
"loading personalized settings for internet explorer..."

The list goes on for quite a while. This happens for each person on each computer they haven't been on yet, and I'm assuming that's the computer loading some admin-altered settings from the server.

The admins at my school want a way to make it so they can preload these settings and have all students share the same settings, so they don't need to redownload.

Basically, one of the tech guys will run some script or do some sort of configuration when he ghosts a computer to load these settings and set them as current for all students that try to log in.

There are some odd 1000 student accounts, so putting 1000 copies on each computer probably isn't realistic.

Does anyone know of how you can fix this? I can provide more info if need be.

-- ethraax

 

[iholla]

If the student accounts are created by an admin, then you should make a script that sets default user permissions and settings and run it after every account creation.

All user persmissions and settings are but key values in the registry. I suggest you make a .bat file to set the register keys as required. Another way is using vb scripts or an array of simple .reg files.

Good luck