Configuring Specific Settings

One of the more common questions I receive, and one of the biggest requests from reviewers who read this chapter, is recommendations about specific settings to configure in Windows XP Professional. There are thousands of settings in Windows XP Professional, many of which an enterprise might want to configure in different combinations. Documenting them all isn’t possible.

I’ve attempted the next best thing, however. This book’s companion CD contains sample .inf, .reg, .vbs, and .cmd files for numerous settings that are useful to configure during a desktop deployment. They’re in the Samples\chap08\settings folder. Instead of trying to anticipate what every reader might want to configure, I looked at the last few desktop ...

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