Re: Ping Mike Williams Questions on SP2 adms

From: joust in jest (jest_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:46:32 -0700

Richard:

When addressing someone directly, it is often useful to use their correct
name. Think how much nicer you would have thought of me if I had addressed
you as "Robert", rather than as "Richard".

Since "Mark Williams [MSFT]" , has posted some useful info XP SP2
information within eyesight of your post, it shouldn't be too hard to
recognize the difference between Mark Williams [MSFT] and the mysterious,
unresponsive (and perhaps unknowledgeable) "Mike Williams".

steve

"Robert R Kircher, Jr." <rrkircher@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:aoednTPaRKhr5oTcRVn-sQ@giganews.com...
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the efforts on the XPSP2 adm files. I've taken a quick look
and
> one thing I didn't see was a way to override the disabling of the
Messenger
> service. I understand why MS decided to disable Messenger but many of us
in
> the corporate world 1) have firewalls that prevent rouge messages and 2)
use
> messenger to notify folks about network events. I'm assuming the bestway
to
> turn Messenger back on is via Computer/Windows Settings/System
> Settings/System Services?
>
> One other thing. We need XP policies that provide better control over the
> desktop UI. There are setting missing or way too drastic. For example,
I'd
> like to add the desktop icons back to the desktop but use the XP Start
menu.
> The only way I can see to turn on the desktop icons is to force the
Classic
> Start Menu. It would be great if the Remove Icon settings actually
removed
> the icons if set to Enabled and added the icons if set to Disabled. Same
> holds for toolbars like the Quick Launch bar and Address Bar. I'd like a
> way to turn them on. This is especially a problem because I have editing
> these items disabled so users don't change my defaults so now I have to go
> through a process of enabling changes, making the change, and then
disabling
> changes.
>
> Lastly I'd love to see setting that controlled the Performance options of
> the UI. Those set in My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Performance/Visual
> Effects.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
>
> Rob
> BTW: Was that the Democratic or Republican convention we just watched?
>
>
>

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