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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 02:27:22AM +0100, Ian P. Christian wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Personally, I see no reason why users can't be given free reign over their > > own > > personal settings. I think the users would be far more endeared to the > > system if they are able to personalise their own space. I can see you might > > want to stop people using porn as their desktop wallpaper, but I guess ought > > to be dealt with on a individual basis! > > This is most likely not due to them lockign thigns down. This is more likely > due to the use of manditory profiles for the majority of users. Having all > ther users use the same profile is far more efficient, it means that when a > user logs on, the profile will already be cached. It also means that changes It's apparently beyond Microsoft's comprehension that there are plenty of situations where their write-back approach is worst that useless. > to everyones registry can be made easy for the administrators. A great many Windows programmers just don't appear to understand the concept of multi-user or why the registry is split this way. The most annoying ones are those who think they are being "clever" by making the username part of a registry key. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.