User Rights / HowTo

[DavidD]

Hello community,

I have a really silly problem that maybe someone could help me with:

for various reasons - laziness being one of them - I have always logged on with 'Admin' rights, but today I had to create a second User on my PC (WinXP ...), but when I logged on with the 'other' User, several system settings were unavailable, one being "Desktop Settings" !!

What have I missed? where can this be correctly setup?

Thanks guys and gals,

David D.

[Irene]

If you have no problem with it, you could perhaps give the other user admin rights.

That might expand the availablity of settings. :D

[DavidD]

If you have no problem with it, you could perhaps give the other user admin rights.

That might expand the availablity of settings. :D

That's one way of couse, but due to the 'Skill Levels' of the second User, I do rather want to protect myself, the other User AND the PC ;-)

Thanks anyway

David D.

[Irene]

If you have no problem with it, you could perhaps give the other user admin rights. That might expand the availablity of settings. :D

That's one way of couse, but due to the 'Skill Levels' of the second User, I do rather want to protect myself, the other User AND the PC ;-)

Thanks anyway

Ok David, I understand.

Hopefully, someone else will have a more suitable answer. :)

[Scarecrow Man]

If you use XP Home you may be out of luck. There is not many options for user control. However, if you are using XP Professional, you have a plethora of control available to you as an administrator.

Go to start > run > gpedit.msc

This Excel file will give you some info on each setting, as well as the registry key associated with each setting. I believe the registry keys can be used to enforce restrictions without the use of gpedit and therefore usable on XP Home edition. I am on XP Pro so I cannot verify this.

Of course, make a backup before touching anything in the registry.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/a...icySettings.xls

[Irene]

Great to see you back on-line again, Scarecrow Man. :D

Sorry to go off topic briefly, DavidD.

[Scarecrow Man]

Great to see you back on-line again, Scarecrow Man. :D

Sorry to go off topic briefly, DavidD.

B) I'm never off-line.... that's part of the problem! :lol:

[DavidD]

If you use XP Home you may be out of luck. There is not many options for user control. However, if you are using XP Professional, you have a plethora of control available to you as an administrator.

Go to start > run > gpedit.msc

This Excel file will give you some info on each setting, as well as the registry key associated with each setting. I believe the registry keys can be used to enforce restrictions without the use of gpedit and therefore usable on XP Home edition. I am on XP Pro so I cannot verify this.

Of course, make a backup before touching anything in the registry.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/a...icySettings.xls

Hi 'Scarecrow Man',

thank you for the input. I am indeed using XP-Pro, I should have provided more detail.

I have already checked out the possibilities offered by Local User and Group / Computer Policy editing. I have found absolutely *nothing* - or at least not readily identifiable - that would affect a User being able to edit his/her DeskTop properties. In fact non of the policies have ever been edited - everthing shown is in pristine condition!

Do you know of a specific policy that, if not specifically forbidding this, must be set to allow a Standard-User to change their DeskTop? Strangely enough a Standard-User is allowed to change the SysTime, but not the DeskTop

I have still to check on your links etcetera, and will feedback on that ...

Thanks and best regards to both contributors :-)

David D.

[Scarecrow Man]

Most of the options you will want to use are under

Local Computer Policy

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-->User Configuration

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--->Administrative Templates

Have a look at the options here as there are quite a few to describe. I'm sure you will find an option that will do what you require.