Difference between Mandatory and All Users profile in XP Pro

havenlad · Guest

I've just watched the Nuggets video by Todd and this one part confused me.
Does anybody know what the difference is between the 2 profiles? Seems to me
they are both changed only by the Administrators and all users have them both.

Thanks in advance

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Anteaus · Guest

Not seen this, but a Mandatory profile is just a standard profile with the
extension changed to .man

Effect is something like having a readonly user; any changes you make to the
user-settings are lost at next reboot. Needless to say, for most purposes
this is not particularly useful!

"All Users" is a special profile which contains desktop-shortcuts and
program-settings which apply regardless of who is logged-on. Other parts of
the profile are mostly nonfunctional. Its purpose is to give programmers a
way of presenting icons, etc. without having to do this repeatedly for every
user.

"havenlad" wrote:

> I've just watched the Nuggets video by Todd and this one part confused me.

havenlad · Guest

Thanks

Does seem a bit pointless though

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