Re: New user preferences and settings

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Thanks Malke.

This is pretty involved stuff. ..and I though that what I wanted to do
wasn't going to be that difficult.

I'll review this when I have some more time.

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Jonathan Finney

"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jonathan Finney wrote:


Thanks Malke. Lots of interesting stuff here, but I didn't know that
a user account and a user profile were not the same thing and I'm
still not sure what the distinction is.

Can you clear this up for me?

Read this to understand accounts, etc.:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/luawinxp.mspx

See here for a clear explanation of profiles (ignore the part about
roaming profiles if like):
http://tinyurl.com/4fdon

Think of the account as defining the user's identity (name, password)
and the profile as defining the whole of the user - name, password,
environment, etc.

Malke
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