Easy XP settings question.

**John Prophet** · January 28th, 2003, 11:32 PM

This should be an easy one.

I have a new Dell with xp for some friends of mine. I set them up each one with an account.

Then of course I notice that I add a shortcut to the desktop on his account and its not on her desktop.

How can I go through and make all the changes I want to make at once without having to try and duplicate everything??

Thanks, JP

**EvilRick** · January 28th, 2003, 11:35 PM

You should be able to do this by making the shortcuts in the "All Users\Desktop" directory.

**John Prophet** · January 28th, 2003, 11:38 PM

OK, that saves me some trouble there, thanks.

ok, what about stuff like turning off all the eye candy by right clicking my computer,properties,advanced,performance etc......I adjusted his and noticed hers was the same...can I do these at once also??

JP

**EvilRick** · January 28th, 2003, 11:41 PM

You might try "gpedit.msc" from 'Run'.

**John Prophet** · January 28th, 2003, 11:57 PM

Yeah. I hate that I am selling comps with XP but I havent really used it myself yet. And words like "group policy" scare me! lol

JP

**EvilRick** · January 29th, 2003, 12:04 AM

You should use the 'sysprep' utility.

Linkage

Very handy.

**muno** · January 29th, 2003, 03:41 AM

Err.. Why should he use the sysprep util?

Afaik sysprep prepares the system to be ghosted or for something similar action (it erases unique identifiers etc.)
-M

**EvilRick** · January 29th, 2003, 08:52 AM

Originally posted by John Prophet I am selling comps with XP

JP

He could use the -pnp option so that he wouldn't have to do a fresh install everytime.
It's NOT just for ghosting/removing SID's. It's for making the multiple install process easier.