You'll need to add registry values to your HKEY_USERS\.Default key(s). They are:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced]
- CascadeControlPanel (reg_sz) Value YES or NO .
This cascades the Control Panel by default if set to yes. Defaults to NO.
-StartMenuAdminTools (reg_sz) Value YES or NO.
This controls whether or not the admin tools are shown in the start menu. Defaults to NO.
- IntelliMenus (reg_sz) Value YES or NO .
This value enables or disables the "Personalized Menus" of the start menu. Defaults to YES.
- StartMenuScrollPrograms (reg_sz) Value YES or NO .
This controls whether or not the Start Menu should scroll or be in multiple columns. Defaults to NO.
- StartMenuLogoff (reg_sz) Value 0 (disable) or 1 (enable) .
Controls whether the Logoff option is shown in the Start Menu or not.
If you want to configure Internet Explorer proxies and exemptions for each user:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\
Internet Settings]
- ProxyEnable (reg_dword) Value 1 (hex).
This needs to be in there if you want to use proxies!
- ProxyOverride (reg_sz) -enter values here, separated by semicolons (;). Add the value < local > (without the spaces between the < and > and the word local) at the end to complete the line.
This adds items to your Exclusion list, and also causes the box labeled "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" to be checked as well.
- ProxyServer (reg_sz) enter the proxy server and port in the form of "proxyserver:80" (minus the quotes, of course).
This adds the proxy server and ports to your proxy server list, and sets all services to use this value.
You can also set all of these up in the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER] key or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] key as well. You can also create a .reg file to run (placing it in the runonce folder) when the user fers logs on to patch these values in if using [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT] and/or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] does not work for some odd reason. These should also work with WindowsXP as well, although I have not tried them as of yet on XP. Good luck!
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by cluberti on 08/07/01 15:37.</FONT></P>