Hello,

Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2003 AD Domain in Windows 2000 mode.

I've written a script that changes the windows explorer view to 'list'. It
works by writing values to the 'Streams' key in HKCU and seems to work fine
when I run this as an administrator.

Standard Users do not have access to the Tools-> Options in Windows Explorer
(disabled via Group Policy)

However, when I login as a non-administrator, the view is still 'icons'.
I have written a second script to interrogate the registry to verify that
the changes that I made had been written successfully - they had.

Given that the non-administrator user has group policy settings applied to
them, would this be the reason why my registry changes are not taking effect?

As far as I can tell, there is no mention of the 'Streams' key in the ADM
files that are applied to the client/user.

On 4/7/2008 6:51 AM adrianr plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and said:

Hey Brian,

I do want to implement this throughout, but users do not have access to
Tools/Options/Folder Options in Explorer. This has been removed via
Group Policy and I can't change that. The user environment has been locked
down so I need another way of achieving what could be done simply via the
'Folder Options'.

Thanks,

Adrian

"Brian K" wrote:

Aren't Folder View settings saved here?

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU

What if, logged on as Administrator, you "Reset All Folders", set your
"List View", then "Apply to All Folders", then copy the registry
settings from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\
and incorporate into your script?

ju.c

"adrianr" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've seen various posts about where the settings are stored.
The ShellNoRoam seems to store settings for individual folders and this key
I believe is Windows XP only.
I have to implement this across Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients.

The 'Streams' seems to define/tell Explorer to not update the
ShellNoRoam/Bags (with the setting I used).
What is puzzling me is why my 'streams' change works as a user with no GPO
applied, but when I apply GPO,
the settings (whilst still set in the registry) do not seem to take effect.

I'll have a go with the 'ShellNoRoam' suggestion and see if that does the
job - Many Thanks for the suggestion!

Adrian

"ju.c" wrote:

On Apr 7, 12:51 pm, adrianr discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: