Guest chaz@bctonline.com Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a particular user account? For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the Admin account. Please Advise, chaz
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: XP User Account Startup Config You can directly edit the Registry, moving the items from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.................\Run. Likewise, you can move items from the Startup folder (%USERPROFILE%\Startup\Programs\Startup) to the other profile. To do the Registry edit, Export the HKLM\...\Run key, make a copy of the resulting REG file, right-click the new REG file and Edit, then replace instances of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for the items you want to change) with HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then Merge the resulting REG file. Finally, go back to the Registry and delete the changed items from the HKLM section. Keep the original REG file intact so you can re-merge it if something goes wrong. Now, restart and test. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com <chaz@bctonline.com> wrote in message news:1187632862.760837.271610@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a > particular user account? > For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the > Admin account. > Please Advise, > chaz >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: XP User Account Startup Config I should note that you need to be logged on to the target user for this to work. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:%23OZiTf14HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > You can directly edit the Registry, moving the items from > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to: > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.................\Run. > > Likewise, you can move items from the Startup folder > (%USERPROFILE%\Startup\Programs\Startup) to the other profile. > > To do the Registry edit, Export the HKLM\...\Run key, make a copy of the > resulting REG file, right-click the new REG file and Edit, then replace > instances of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for the items you want to change) with > HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then Merge the resulting REG file. Finally, go back to > the Registry and delete the changed items from the HKLM section. Keep the > original REG file intact so you can re-merge it if something goes wrong. > > Now, restart and test. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > > <chaz@bctonline.com> wrote in message > news:1187632862.760837.271610@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a >> particular user account? >> For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the >> Admin account. >> Please Advise, >> chaz >> > >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: XP User Account Startup Config Amendment: For the Startup Folder, what you want to do is move the shortcut from ...\Documents and Settings\All Users\...\Startup to the Profile(s) you want to have the item start in. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:%23OZiTf14HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > You can directly edit the Registry, moving the items from > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to: > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.................\Run. > > Likewise, you can move items from the Startup folder > (%USERPROFILE%\Startup\Programs\Startup) to the other profile. > > To do the Registry edit, Export the HKLM\...\Run key, make a copy of the > resulting REG file, right-click the new REG file and Edit, then replace > instances of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for the items you want to change) with > HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then Merge the resulting REG file. Finally, go back to > the Registry and delete the changed items from the HKLM section. Keep the > original REG file intact so you can re-merge it if something goes wrong. > > Now, restart and test. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > > <chaz@bctonline.com> wrote in message > news:1187632862.760837.271610@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a >> particular user account? >> For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the >> Admin account. >> Please Advise, >> chaz >> > >
Guest chaz Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: XP User Account Startup Config On Aug 20, 12:23 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote: > Amendment: For the Startup Folder, what you want to do is move the shortcut > from ...\Documents and Settings\All Users\...\Startup to the Profile(s) you > want to have the item start in. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com > > "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in messagenews:%23OZiTf14HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > > You can directly edit the Registry, moving the items from > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to: > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.................\Run. > > > Likewise, you can move items from the Startup folder > > (%USERPROFILE%\Startup\Programs\Startup) to the other profile. > > > To do the Registry edit, Export the HKLM\...\Run key, make a copy of the > > resulting REG file, right-click the new REG file and Edit, then replace > > instances of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for the items you want to change) with > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then Merge the resulting REG file. Finally, go back to > > the Registry and delete the changed items from the HKLM section. Keep the > > original REG file intact so you can re-merge it if something goes wrong. > > > Now, restart and test. > > > -- > > Gary S. Terhune > > MS-MVP Shell/User > >http://www.grystmill.com > > > <c...@bctonline.com> wrote in message > >news:1187632862.760837.271610@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > >> Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a > >> particular user account? > >> For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the > >> Admin account. > >> Please Advise, > >> chaz Gary, Very Interesting... From your comments I'm getting the following picture: When I'm logged in as Guest, I can edit the registry entries that pertain to the Guest account via the CURRENT_USER key. Would it be fair to say that anything other than CURRENT_USER would have to be modified by the admin account?
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: XP User Account Startup Config In the Guest account, you can edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER, but you cannot edit any other part of the Registry. Personally, I wouldn't use the Guest account, I'd create a new one, give it admin permissions to start, go there and set it up the way you want, then go back to your own admin account and set restrictions. I forgot one aspect of this procedure: The HKLM...\Run key is for All Users. If you delete an item there, in order for other users to have it run, you need to add it to each user's HKCU section. Add them to all of the users before deleting from HKLM. I also need to amend another thing. I'm used to REGEDIT 4 and forgot that in REGEDIT 5 you can change the key name on one line, it isn't repeated with each line item like in REGEDIT 4. So what you do is change that one line to HKCU, then delete any lines for items you DON'T want moved. Also in WinXP, there are sub-keys to the Run key, and you don't want those added to HKCU. Delete those lines from the REG file. Make sure that when you finish there is a blank line at the bottom. After the last line of type, there should be TWO carriage returns. Also, make sure that Notepad's Word Wrap is turned off and that you maximize the window so that lines don't wrap. If not, you may not delete the whole line. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "chaz" <chaz@bctonline.com> wrote in message news:1187658151.891459.318770@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com... > On Aug 20, 12:23 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote: >> Amendment: For the Startup Folder, what you want to do is move the >> shortcut >> from ...\Documents and Settings\All Users\...\Startup to the Profile(s) >> you >> want to have the item start in. >> >> -- >> Gary S. Terhune >> MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com >> >> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in >> messagenews:%23OZiTf14HHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> >> > You can directly edit the Registry, moving the items from >> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key >> > to: >> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.................\Run. >> >> > Likewise, you can move items from the Startup folder >> > (%USERPROFILE%\Startup\Programs\Startup) to the other profile. >> >> > To do the Registry edit, Export the HKLM\...\Run key, make a copy of >> > the >> > resulting REG file, right-click the new REG file and Edit, then replace >> > instances of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for the items you want to change) with >> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then Merge the resulting REG file. Finally, go back >> > to >> > the Registry and delete the changed items from the HKLM section. Keep >> > the >> > original REG file intact so you can re-merge it if something goes >> > wrong. >> >> > Now, restart and test. >> >> > -- >> > Gary S. Terhune >> > MS-MVP Shell/User >> >http://www.grystmill.com >> >> > <c...@bctonline.com> wrote in message >> >news:1187632862.760837.271610@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> >> Is there a way to configure which programs start automatically for a >> >> particular user account? >> >> For instance, the Guest account should not start the same apps as the >> >> Admin account. >> >> Please Advise, >> >> chaz > > Gary, > Very Interesting... From your comments I'm getting the following > picture: > When I'm logged in as Guest, I can edit the registry entries that > pertain to the Guest account via the CURRENT_USER key. > Would it be fair to say that anything other than CURRENT_USER would > have to be modified by the admin account? > >
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