Machine policy registry keys

Hi,

I have used an Administrative Template to configure screensavers settings
and this works fine except on some PC's. On the PC's where it does not work
I do see the correct settings in Desktop -> Screensaver settings (e.g. the
values I specified in the administrative templates are shown in grey) but
these settings are not the one applied. Instead, the settings that are
applied are the onces stored in the registry keys under
HKLM\Software\Policies\etc.

So my question is. Can an administrator just create registry keys in
HKLM\Software\Policies and they are processed by windows as normal policies?
The screensafer settings are defined as per User settings so I am surprised
by the fact that these per machine keys can override them ?

Can anyone shed some light into how these registry keys are processed by
Windows ?

Thanks a lot,
Jos.


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