poledit

So what's your question?

If you have a logon screen popup when you enter windows, that asks for a password, then you have probably already created a
profile.
Have you ever typed a user name in that window.
If the window doesn't come up when going into windows, then

Control panel/Open Passwords/User Profile Tab/and click "users can custumize thier preferences......". Reboot.

And when the window comes up, put in a username and password.

If you are the only user of the computer, and there is no need for a profile, this will only make your registry grow substantially.

My question is this I wish to "simulate" a network situation.Yes
in password applet "user can customize their own settings" is checked. Iwish to by using poledit configure different user on the system or if you wish I would like certain users when they logon have restrictions already in place by me the "administrator". If my registry does grow this is not really my concern.Like I said I need to know how to configure a system for specific users with specific rights already established, by using poledit.

That's a little to vague for me to give you any instructions.
Copy from your 95 CD "ADMIN\APPTOOLS\POLEDIT\*.*" to a new directory call it POLEDIT. It's very easy.
If you specify what you want, I know you think you did, but when you get into poledit you'll see quite a few choices to make.

Here is one way that worked great for my situation...

Before enabling multi-user profiles...

Set up the desktop the way you would want the default desktop to look for new users...

Then enable multi-user profiles...and make sure that you enable the password login dialogue...

At the login prompt just press cancel...this will bypass the login and still take you into windows 95...now with the policy editor totally restrict this desktop..(remove all drives, desktop icons..etc...)..this will stop people from just pressing cancel at the login and still being able to access information on the computer...

Now restart and log in as each user, and set restrictions again using the policy editor for each user....With the editor, changing settings under "computer" will affect all users but just changing the settings under "user" will set restrictions for just the logged in user...

Do not have a copy of Policy editor on the C drive...keep it on a floppy disk...(so that anyone who logs on will not be able to just access the editor and take off restrictions...)

Hopefully I havent missed anything out...(its been a while since I set up our policies....)

Let us know how this works...

(Again I didnt fully explain how to use the policy editor, because I assumed from your comments that you already know how to set restrictions...)

Conan

Trithemius, there is a utility called shutdown which will allow only selected users to log on to your machine and will throw out all others (including the "esc" users..).

Damir

P.S. If you need a detailed explanation on how to use poledit than reject this answer and allow other experts to join in.
Just a tip.. in policy editor you need to create user profiles for each user that is logged on your computer, for all others Default User will be their profile.

It doesn't work. When I log in as other users things as simple as wallpaper don't change.I do not wish to get utilities either. This OS is supposed to be able to do the job on it's own so for that matter, I would rather be able to do this the long way if you know what I mean. Thanks alot though for the effort.

Yeap, sorry for lapsus calami (writing errors) right now I'm a little bit tired so ..

Anyway, after setting a user policies for Default User, try to logon as new, undefined user in your *,pol file (example user: test, pass: test) and see if restrictions are working..

If need more help just ask.. ("I'll be try..." gosh.. how did this happen.. what I wanted to say was, if you have any questions I'll try be glad to answer them..)

Damir

Again...

Trithemius;
Seems like i'm advertizing for Winsave today, but just yesterday i loaded it again to check thier new vwersion.
They have a free demo, does not write to any other system files except the registry and that is less than 2k. Try it, you'll be impressed. You cna use this on a stand alone PC or network.
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WINSAVE
http://www.softwareshelf.com/so01000.htm 
Winsafe is a unique toolkit that gives the system administrator
or home user the ability to centrally enable or disable just about
anything on a user's desktop. On a network it is
server-centric. It is easy to use with a simple toggled interface.
It is powerful, useful and
easier to use than similar features existing in 95 or NT.
Demo available.
WinSafe '95 gives you the ability to restrict the users'
access to selected parts of Windows '95 ( 175 selections).
WinSafe '95 gives you better control over company
network security by enforcing user validation by the
network and preventing users on a network from sharing
files.

Smeebud, have I told you already that you're a good advertizer? Winsafe is cool stuff.. It si just to bad Trithemius won't use any other utilities than w95...

Trithemius, It won't hurt just to try it.. Basicly all it gives you can be done with policy editor (by setting additional templates) but it would take eternity.. well perhaps it would be possible to do it in some milion years.. so... (it's only 1 MB ...)

Damir

Oh yea TR,
It's all a click of the mouse from what your after.

Just a small problem is that this demo version won't alow you to save any changes...

Damir

Thank you very much. Once I got rid of any .pwl and .pol files on my machine and implemented your instructions I was able to create the required policies for my group of users. As for Smeebud, I downloaded his product and found the interface very interesting but I  would rather be able to do this on my own as I'm starting to study for MCSE.
Once again thanks for your input it has been invaluable