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1 Customize XP start menu

Start menu > Properties > Start menu > Customize > Advances

2 Configure Taskbar

Start menu > Properties > Taskbar

1) Lock taskbar

2) Auto-hide the taskbar

3) Keep the taskbar on the top of other window

4) Group similar task buttons

3 Manager Recycle Bin

Click Recycle BIN > Properties

4 Manager Display

Right click desktop > Display Properties >

1) Themes

2) Desktop

3) Screen saver

4) Appearance

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Appearance > effect

5) Settings

My Pictures Screen Saver in Appearence

The My Pictures Screen Saver Options dialog box uses the photos found in the My

Pictures folder to create a slideshow screen saver. This is a fun way to personalize

Windows XP. You have some helpful customization options with the slideshow itself. If

you select My Pictures from the screen saver drop-down menu, you can click the

Settings button and configure how often the pictures should change, how big the

pictures should be, as well as some additional options that allow you to stretch

photos, use transitions, and so forth. Also, you can use the Browse button to select a

desired folder to use, rather than My Pictures. This way, if you have photos stored in

individual folders, you can simply use those folders for the screen saver slideshow,

rather than having to move everything to My Pictures.

5 Working with the user accounts

To setup user account, there are in two parts Control panel & Computer management

But Computer management is easiest and fastest way to handle with

6 Managing Group

1) Administrators

2) Power Users

3) Users

4) Backup Operators

5) Guests

6) Network Configuration Operators

7) Remote Desktop Users
If Remote Desktop is configured, this group is provided for remote desktop users to access the remote access connection.

8) Help Services Group

9) IIS groups

7 Group Policy

Group policy is used to invoke certain settings on computers and user accounts and control what the users are able to do.

Group Policy is available in MMC (Microsoft Manager Console)

Start > Run > MMC > File > Add/Remove Snap-in

Two parts in MMC

1) Computer Configure

The Computer Configuration node contains settings that you

want to impose on the computer system when users log on. For example, you can

use the Computer Configuration node to automatically enable disk quotas for users

on your computer.

2) User Configure

the User Configuration node provides you with settings you can apply to the user.

regardless of what computer he or she is logged onto. Because you are only configuring the local user on the local computer

7.1 Configuring Group Policy

1) Not configured no setting, no register

2) Enabled setting is enabled, register

3) Disabled setting is disabled, register

As you can see, you can configure many, many different policies on your

local machine. The important point to remember is that you should only

enable policies that you really want to enforce. Be wary of enabling too

many settings that cause too many user restrictions and too many registry

entries. They have a tendency to bog down your computer and be ineffective.

Just because you can enable a policy doesn’t mean you should, so your

best approach to using Group Policy is to keep things simple and effective.

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