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Tagged with group-policy windows-xp
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Change local time on XP box - local admin but group policy restricts time change
I am a developer in need of doing some temporal unit testing on my local XP box. I am local admin but there is a group policy enforced centrally that prohibits changing local time (a severe case of ...
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GPO to disable/hide language selection on Windows XP
Is there a group policy to hide the language selection on the Windows XP taskbar? I need to set this on several machines so don't want to go hiding it one by one.
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Set Windows XP desktop background with group policy
I need to set a specific desktop background picture to a number of Windows XP machines.
Is it possible to use some group policy for this or must I do it one by one?
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How do I configure privileges for a Standard user account?
How do I limit the features of a Standard user account, without affecting the Admin account?
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How can I restrict a guest account from accessing the Group Policy Editor?
I am the admin of a Windows XP machine and I would like to make so that the guest account cannot access the Group Policy Editor. Is there any way to do that?
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Windows Update when Group Policy Forbids
I am in the administrators group for my local Windows XP machine and I would like to get updates via http://update.microsoft.com/[1]. However, this is prevented via the group policy:
Network policy ...
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Windows XP remove certain abilities for groups
In my environment, I want to prevent temporary users(guests and such), from shutting down the computer. From within Windows.
I would have thought this option would be listed in the USER/Groups ...
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Making an XP based computer apply policy template to only certain users
I have a device running Windows XP that is not on a domain. I want to lock the non-admin user down.
I got the SteadyState .adm templates files for lock down (using SteadyState caused problems with my ...
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