Default Profile in Windows XP

[jam7171]

I am new here so please excuse me if I am posting in the wrong area. I work in a school system as a tech (break and fix mostly)with over 1000 students.Once in awhile, I will log onto one of our xp computers and notice that my profile will be restricted..no run command,no control panel. Instead of erasing all the profiles on the pc's already and creating a new default profile, is there a tool that can fix it on the fly? I feel like I should know this already but I dont. If a thread exists on this already, please lead me to it.
Thanks and God Bless
John

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
The permissions are user account based, so different profiles will have different rights and access..Log in to those PCs with an administrator level account to insure full access.

In a large system, there should be a universal account on all PCs with admin rights with its name and password a closely-held secret.





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[jam7171]

What I mean is this: Whenever students log on to any pc ,they will get the restricted desktop (no Run menu,no control panel).When I log on, I get no restrictions, at least I am not supposed to. Once in awhile, I do get restricted with my own logon. How to I fix it?

 

[wolluf]

Sounds like a policy is being occasionally applied to your profile (I have seen this - I also work in schools - primary - and several had lots of totally unnecessary restrictions set up, which I removed. However, the implementation of this was patchy - even using gpupdate to 'push' the changes out to the local machines. Some machines I had to apply the changes locally using gpedit.) Is it always on the same machines or random? Assuming this is at least 2k3 server with AD, do you look after this or someone else?

 

[jam7171]

Unfortunately, I do not have any hands on allowance on the server. I only work with the clients.They are using windows 2003 server for sure.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
You need to speak with the Server admin(s)- there may be a misconfigured profile updater script set to run periodically...Also have them chaek your AD permissions to see if it is updated with rights to any new PCs added to the system ..






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[jam7171]

Thanks for the advice. I will give it a try