Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Managing Multiple User Profiles in Windows XP?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-better-ways-to-do-things dept.

ALC Technician asks: "I work as a computer technician at Ferris State University, and we use Windows based systems for most of our faculty and student computers. We've been running into a lot of issues with user profiles, particularly in Windows XP, such as setting the systems up while logged in as Administrator and getting the configuration to propigate to the standard user accounts. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to give the users appropriate rights to the machine without sacrificing system security?"

1 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Great attitude, dude(tte)s by jackbox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even given that Slashdot may not be the best or most appropriate place to seek Windows configuration advice, do you really think the sarcastic and insulting posts here would convince anyone of the professionalism and helpfulness of the Linux community?

    Just assume for argument's sake that the original poster is a relative newbie (certainly to Slashdot), a number of you may have just given him his first taste of Open Source support. Nice job!

    To paraphrase Tom Lehrer, if you can't say something nice, then the least you can do is to shut up!