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April 7, 2010 12:14 PM   Subscribe

"Do not show this message again". Keeping preferences and settings in XP when using steadystate to reset a user account on logout?

Let me see if I can explain this properly.

I take a freshly installed xp machine, and set it up the way I like it.
I create a visitor account, which I then keep fairly limited, can only run certain programs, access usb and the caches etc are dumped on logout. I do this with steadystate.

So I create visitor, go in and start all the programs, click the various "do not show this again" messages, change the default search engine, turn off phishing filter, as well as changing a few file associations etc.

Then I lock down the account with steadystate. Problem is, next time I log in, boom, there it is "The information you are about to send can be viewed by blahblah", "Do you want to turn on autocomplete" etc.

I am obviously missing something in the order I am doing things, help please?
posted by Iteki to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)
 
Are you using the Guest account? What happens if you remove Steadystate from the equation? Can you set those preferences (the "do not show this again" messages), log out, log back in, and...are you prompted by them again? Where I'm going with this is that the true Guest account may not preserve those settings from session to session. If you have made your own "Visitor" account, then I'm not sure what's going on. Can you reproduce the problem using an account that's a member of the admin group?
posted by dave*p at 1:32 PM on April 7, 2010


Response by poster: To clarify, I wrote "guest account" here at first, but changed to "visitor" account as I am *not* using the Guest Account feature, but am instead atm using steadystate to ensure that each visitor gets a fresh setup. These computers are in a public setting.
posted by Iteki at 1:46 PM on April 7, 2010


I don't know if SteadyState is suppose to preserve those settings but if it doesn't, could you run a script on login to set those parameters?
posted by mmascolino at 2:46 PM on April 7, 2010


Are you logging out and then logging back in again before locking down?
posted by flabdablet at 4:28 PM on April 7, 2010


If you enabled steady state before you did any of that stuff, steadystate will revert the change. Your best bet is to get all user settings EXACTLY as you want them, then run steady state, attach it to the user, and reboot.

We often install SS on multiuser laptops that are lent out, etc. More than once we've made the mistake of installing a very limited SS account, modifying settings, and having to do it all over again.
posted by TomMelee at 6:04 PM on April 7, 2010


Response by poster: Am defineitly making the changes while Visitor is à full-rights account and then locking down.
posted by Iteki at 9:35 PM on April 7, 2010


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