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What's the need for NTUSER.POL?

It looks like gpedit creates 2 registry.pol files and a ntuser.pol in every profile.
I understand how the registry.pol files work, but I'm out of idea about ntuser.pol.
Can anyone help me about this?

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sajuks

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nxbp

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Alright. But I'm facing a problem that I cannot seem to understand : I make changes from gpedit, copy the files registry.pol and ntuser.pol where they belong on another computer, then reboot it. From that machine, using gpedit and regedit, I then make sure modifications were taken into account. But I don't get the expected result (that I do get on the first machine). Any idea why?
Thanks

sajuks

Are both machines similar ( sp2 with all patches ) or is there anything different.
loggin in as admin on both ?

nxbp

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Identical machines (VM Ware virtual machines), with the same master, logged on with the same account with user rights. SP1 with all critical patches.

nxbp

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I forgot to mention that if I use gpedit to makes the changes on the second machine, it does works. My problem is only with automatically bringing those changes to another computer.

sajuks

u mean ur unable to rollout a common group policy ?sorry for the confusion...

nxbp

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No. We're in workgroup, no AD, and using Novell and NDS. So, if I'm not mistaken, there's no way to to group policies.

nxbp

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Thanks for your help. I've found the solution : Copy the entire directory and not only registry.pol

sajuks

Thanks for the points and grade and for that bit of information(Copy the entire directory and not only registry.pol)