Terminal Services & File associations

[imonarock]

We run win2k terminal services for 300 or so thin clients. I know the file associations are locked down with the reg key...Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer\"nofileassociate"=dword:00000001

Im logged in as admin and change this key to 0. This allows me to change file associations, but only for the admin. If I login as another user I have the old associations. Im guessing something on the user level is overiding this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

 

[CitrixEngineer]

There is a separate copy of this key loaded for each user. The user hives are identified with the SID number in the registry. There is a hivelist maintained in the registry if you need to resolve SID to username.

Hope this helps

 

[imonarock]

Thanks for the reply, does this mean there is no easy way to globally change an association for all users?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Here's a guess: If you log in as admin, open a cmd window and type change user/install, then change file associations through the Control Panel tool, does this propagate the changes after you type change user/execute?

This may or may not work - try it in your test environment first ;-)