Re: Using Group Policies on Standalone XP Pro

By far your best option is to use the Shared Computer Toolkit from Microsoft
at the link below that will allow to do much of what you want though you
will not have the full Group Policy user configuration settings to work with
but I think you will be pretty happy with what you can do. The only other
option I know of is to tweak permissions to the
Windows\system32\grouppolicy\user folder to deny read permissions to those
users/groups you do NOT want the Group Policy user configuration settings to
apply to leaving you with those that have the GP settings applied to them
and those that do not. Also denying read to the administrators group will
not allow the local administrators to manage Group Policy locally until the
read permission is applied again. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx --- Shared
Computer Toolkit

"A. Foxmore" <AFoxmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FC46FE6D-D7FA-4706-8282-1CDE4B8D3CE3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Everyone,

I have a single XP Pro machine that will be used by several users. The
machine is not networked. I would like to establish policies (using Group
Policy Editor [gpedit.msc])for the various users and eventually, groups of
users, that will be using this machine. I am the sole administrator of the
machine.

The Group Policy Editor seems to offer the options I need but I do not
understand how to apply the settings to a particular user or group of
users.
When I start gpedit.msc I have two nodes: "Computer Configuration" and
"User
Configuration". I believe the settings under the "Computer Configuration"
node apply to *all* users that use this computer whereas the settings
under
"User Configuration" applies to the current user. I can't see how to apply
the settings to a particular user or group of users.

Is it possible for me to use the Group Policy Editor to apply settings to
individual users and/or groups of users?

Thanks very much.


.

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