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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?"

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  1. Install linux... durh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hopefully after the first few, that'll be the last to a question like this... but then again, this is always the solution here.

    Legitimate Question: *I have a question regarding Windows XX and implimenting XX*

    Stock /. Answer: Linux does it much better, and for less money. Get it for free here: (insert redhat/linuxiso/freebsd/mandrake/debian url here)

    Except for the fact that most of the damn world uses windows, and the migration process is going to take a while, this elitest atitude is just going to alienate people who are stuck with windows, but use Linux in many situations OTHER than the desktop.