Category: Windows Technologies

If you enable Group Policy, any local copy of a user’s roaming profile is deleted when the user logs off. However, the roaming profile still remains on the network server that stores it. You can configure a Group Policy Object (GPO) to perform the preceding behavior by performing the following steps: Edit the GPO that you want to modify. Locate the following section: Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System User Profiles. Double-click Delete cached copies of roaming profiles (the Group Policy setting). Click Enabled. NOTE: The preceding steps involve a computer configuration setting. When Group Policy is applied to a container, […]

This article lists command-line switches you can use when you start Windows Explorer (EXPLORER.EXE). Back to the top MORE INFORMATION Syntax EXPLORER.EXE [/n][/e][,/root,<object>][[,/select],<sub object>] Switches… Syntax EXPLORER.EXE [/n][/e][,/root,<object>][[,/select],<sub object>] Back to the top Switches /n: Opens a new window in single-paned (My Computer) view for each item selected, even if the new window duplicates a window that is already open. /e: Uses Windows Explorer view. Windows Explorer view is most similar to File Manager in Windows version 3.x. Note that the default view is Open view. /root,<object>: Specifies the root level of the specified view. The default is to use […]

This article describes how to use a script to change permissions defined in a re… This article describes how to use a script to change permissions defined in a registry key from a command prompt by using the Regini.exe utility included with Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit. The Resource Kit is a separate product that can be purchased from Microsoft. MORE INFORMATION CAUTION: When you use a script to change registry permissions, you replace the e… CAUTION: When you use a script to change registry permissions, you replace the entire set of current permissions defined in a registry […]