>>>Hi All,
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>>>Not being an admin .. I have a Windows server on which I am creating some user accounts. How can I arrange it so that the users account gets a certain default desktop when they log on the first time. i.e. I would like them to have the Windows XP theme by default. At the moment I am logging on as the user and setting the XP theme manually but surely there is a way to tell Windows what I want the default desktop to be?
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>>Are you talking about:
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>>- users logging on to the Windows server itself, i.e. getting a session on the server computer,
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>>OR
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>>- using a workstation and logging on to a Windows domain
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>>Depending on what you want to do, and your version of Windows server you can get some ideas by Googling
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>>["group policy" "xp theme"]
>>["group policy" "xp theme" domain]
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>Hi Al, these searches resulted in this useful link (amongst others):
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>http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/winxpgpe.html
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>and this has solved the problem for me. Thanks.

You're welcome. Group Policy is arcane, but powerful.