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What is the Windows XP group policy? What does it do? What are the tips for Windows XP group policy? Next we will give readers answers one by one.

Windows XP has new interfaces and functions, and its ease of use greatly improves people's work efficiency. However, most users still use the method of using third-party tools or manually modifying the registry to manage their computers. In fact, Windows XPWindows XP group policy has integrated these functions, and we can achieve the functions we need through Windows XP group policy and related tools.

1. Basic knowledge of Windows XP group policy

What is Windows XP Group Policy? In fact, Windows XP group policy is a tool to modify the system and set the program between the control panel and the registry. We all know that some commonly used systems, appearance, and network settings are often modified through the control panel, but there are too few things that can be modified through the control panel to meet the needs of users; there are some professional friends can use to modify the registry method to set, but the registry involves too much content, it is extremely inconvenient to modify. The Windows XP group policy is somewhere in between, involves more content than the control panel, is as secure as the control panel, and is much more organized and operable than the registry. Microsoft has adopted the Windows XP group policy mechanism since Windows NT 4.0.It has been quite perfect from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Windows XP Group Policy uses its own better management and organization method, and can set up a variety of software, computer, and user policies. For example, you can use Group Policy to remove icons from the desktop, customize the start menu, and simplify the Control Panel. In addition, scripts that run on the computer (when the computer starts or stops, and when the user logs in or logs out) can be added, and even Internet Explorer can be configured.

When you start Windows XP Group Policy, you simply click the start → run command, type gpedit.msc in the run window, and then click the OK button to start the Windows XP Group Policy Editor (figure 1). (note: this Group Policy program is located in "C:\ WINNT\ SYSTEM32" and the file name is "gpedit.msc". )

Group Policy can set up computers in two ways: one is "Local computer configuration" and the other is "Local user configuration". We just need to expand the corresponding project similar to Resource Manager on the left side of the Group Policy window.

Second, make the system more personalized

1. Do not display the welcome screen interface

Windows XP system login has a welcome screen by default, although it looks beautiful, but it is also troublesome because this correspondingly extends the login time. In order to speed up the startup of the computer, we can use the Windows XP group policy setting to hide the Windows XP welcome screen every time the user logs in. The specific steps are as follows:

We expand the "user configuration" → administrative template "→" system on the left side of the "Group Policy" window, then find and double-click "do not show Welcome screen when logging in" in the right window, select "enabled" in the "Settings" tab in the pop-up properties window, and * Click "OK" (figure 2) so that the welcome screen will be hidden every time the user logs in.

Note: if you want other users on this computer to be valid for this setting, we only need to expand "computer configuration" → "administrative template" → "system" → "login", then open and enable "do not show welcome screen when logging in" in the right window, * click "OK" to take effect.

2. Restore to the classic control panel style

The control panel style of Windows XP is different from that of its predecessors, but it is much more luxurious. do you want to restore the control panel style to the original classic style of Windows 9X/2000 control panel? In fact, the solution is not complicated! We can do this through the Windows XP group policy, and others will not be able to restore it in the taskbar of the control panel by clicking the "switch to Category View" button, as follows:

Expand "user configuration" → "Administrative template"→" Control Panel, then find and enable "Force traditional Control Panel style" in the right window, and * click "OK" (figure 3).

3. Lose weight for the start menu

Windows XP's "start" menu has a lot of menu items, some of which we may never click on. If you think Windows's "start" menu is too bloated, we can delete unwanted items through the Windows XP group policy. Take deleting the my documents icon from the start menu as an example to see how to do it:

Expand the "user configuration" → administrative template "→" task bar and the "start" menu, double-click "remove the" my document "icon from the" start "menu in the right window, click" enabled "in the" Settings "tab of the pop-up dialog box, and then click" OK "so that the" my document "icon will be hidden in the" start "menu.

Of course, we can also delete the "Internet connection", "favorites", "Picture favorites", "my Music", "help", "Internet neighbors" and other icons on the "start" menu. We just need to enable the policy corresponding to the unwanted menu items.

4. Get the "start" menu back to basics.

Friends who use Windows 2000 know that users are only allowed to perform common tasks in the system's start menu, while the new start menu in Windows XP combines these ordinary items on a single menu. If you feel that your computer resources are tight and miss the simple style of the previous "start" menu, we can set it in the following way.

Expand the "user configuration" → administrative template "→" task bar and the "start" menu, then in the right window we find and enable the "mandatory typical menu" item, * * Click "OK" and restart the system to see the modified effect.

5. Personalized IE browser

IE browser as an information capture tool in the network era, many people hope to replace with their favorite beautiful pictures, can you solve it? Never mind, Microsoft provides us with the function to change the background image in the IE toolbar, you can also customize the name and logo of the title bar, through the following settings will make your system full of personality.

In the left window of Windows XP Group Policy, find the "user configuration → Windows Settings → Internet Explorer maintenance → browser user Interface" branch; double-click the browser Toolbar customization policy in the right window to open the browser Toolbar customization dialog box. Click the "Custom Toolbar background Bitmap" option in the "background" item, and then click the "Browse" button to select an appropriate picture file, it should be noted that the picture must be a bitmap (.bmp) file, * click "OK" (figure 4).

6. Use IE as the user interface

By default, the system will enter the desktop as soon as it is powered on, and some items on the desktop will be displayed, but sometimes we want to run a program as soon as we boot up instead of running the default explorer program. For example, we want to open the IE browser as soon as we boot up, and the IE browser becomes our user interface. Of course, you can also set other program interfaces. Let's take a look at the specific settings:

Expand "user configuration" → "administrative template" → "system", find and enable the "customize user interface" item in the right window, and then enter the program path and program name (including the extension) to run in the input box under "interface file name" below, such as "c:\ programfiles\ internet explorer\ iexplore.exe" * * Click "OK" and restart the system (figure 5).

7. Close the personalized menu

As we all know, Windows XP automatically moves the recently used menu items to the top of the start menu and hides the recently unused menu items to implement personalized menus. If you don't want the system to be smart, you can enable and disable personalized menu settings as follows:

In the "Windows XP Group Policy" window, expand the "user configuration" → administrative templates "→" task bar and "start" menu, then find and enable the "close Personalized menu" item in the right window, and * click OK.

When this policy is enabled, the system will not personalize the menu and all menu items will be displayed in standard order. Also, this setting removes the use Personalized menu option so that the user cannot change the setting when the setting takes effect.

Note: personalized menus require user tracking. If you enable the turn off user tracking setting, the system disables user tracking, disables personalized menus, and ignores this setting.

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