Re: Mandatory Profile Editing

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:19:56 GMT

Try adding a notepad shortcut to the all users profile desktop folder on those
computers to see if that helps. --- Steve

"Brett Pennington" <brett.pennington@ci.high-point.nc.us> wrote in message
news:e78ad3d5.0408300825.277daa1c@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a Mandatory Profile used for public access of 5 PC's.
> There are no icons on the desktop, and only Internet Explorer is shown
> under Start => Programs.
>
> What I am wanting to do is simply add Notepad to the desktop to allow
> something for people to copy and paste needed information into for
> printing. But despite my attempt of putting Notepad in the
> \\folder_for_profile_on_server\desktop\ dosent allow this to happen. I
> renamed the ntuser.man file to ntuser.dat, thinking that would allow
> me to make changes, but this dosent seem to be the case.
>
> I would prefer to not rebuild the profile, therefore I simply want to
> add this one file to the desktop. I am running Win2K Server and all
> clients run Win2K Pro. I appreciate any help or suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett



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