** From Richard Redick to All on 17 Oct 97  15:56:00
 ** Re: Help with Setting Up Profiles in Win95
 RR> Win95 allowed me to set up user ID's and passwords for both myself &
 RR> my wife, however what I CAN'T figure out is I want to have different
 RR> wall- paper, screen saver, mouse pointers, and I use a different screen
 RR> size 800x600 than my wife when she logs on (she uses 640x480) but Win95
 RR> is not saving any of these options... for example, I changed my
 RR> wallpaper & screen size & saved it when I was logged on with MY user ID
 RR> and then rebooted the system and logged on under her name... the
 RR> settings I had saved previously came up under her user ID instead of
 RR> the ones she had selected, so no matter what... Win95 never kept
 RR> seperate settings for the both of us... How can I get this to happen???
 [excerpted from the Overview in the Win95 Resource Kit Help file]
 In Windows 95, user profiles contain configuration preferences and
 options for each user. They are particularly useful when users are
 encouraged to customize their computing environment, yet are forced to
 share computers with others who are also customizing their
 environments. User profiles are also beneficial to network
 administrators or help desk personnel who typically roam around,
 accessing the network from a variety of locations. Such users can work
 anywhere as if they were sitting at their own desks.
 User profile settings include everything in the Hkey_Current_User
 section of the Windows 95 Registry, such as the following:
 .  Control Panel settings and preferences for the Windows 95 user
    interface, including settings for desktop layout, background, font
    selection, colors, shortcuts on the desktop, the Start menu, and so on.
 .  Settings for persistent network connections, plus information for
    recently used resources, including documents, Find Computer results,
    installation locations for setup, and printer ports.
 .  Application settings (for applications that can write directly to
    the Windows 95 Registry), including settings for the accessories and
    applications installed with Windows 95, menu and toolbar
    configurations, fonts, and so on.
 [end excerpt]
 While the Win95 docs don't explicitly mention it, I believe that screen
 size is *not* settable in the user profile, and I suspect that some of
 the other things you mention may not be either.  Windows can control
 things like what icons appear on the desktop and the contents of menus,
 but things like screen resolution are hardware dependant.  User
 profiles tend to assume a network, with more than one user using a
 machine, and users possibly roving and logging onto different machines.
 What if the profile contains an 800x600 video setting, and the user
 logs on at a machine whose vieo doesn't support that setting?  Nothing
 good....
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