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Windows XP Setup for Cloning

Network Printers
Acrobat Distiller 5.0
Internet Explorer
Documents and Settings
WordPerfect 8 and 9
Registry Settings to Turn off the Master Browser List

NETWORK PRINTERS Network printer installations using TC/PIP ports or chosen from the network list are user-specific and will not show up for new users. Instead install the printers as local printers on LPT1:. When finished with the installation open the printer driver, properties, ports and add a LOCAL PORT but type in the server name and shared printer as \\BL-SERVER\PRINTERNAME.  XP should recognize this as a local printer for new users. ACROBAT DISTILLER 5.0 Open Distiller, change preferences and Job Options as needed; save to "ebook(1).joboptions." When finished delete the "ebook.joboptions" file and rename "ebook(1).joboptions" to "ebook.joboptions" which should make your changed settings the default for all users. INTERNET EXPLORER Open IE and use Tools, Internet Options, Temporary Internet Files, Settings and change the "amount of disk space to use" to "1 MB" or something small. The default is 10% of the disk capacity which means that machines with multiple users, like 10 users, for instance, will use 100% of the drive for temporary internet files. This setting is not global, but is for each user, but this way it is made global by incorporating the change into the Default user setting which affects all new users. I haven't found a way to retroactively change this setting for current users except by having each user change it individually. DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS In order to keep configuration changes to the desktop, Start Menu, taskbar, Windows Explorer folders settings, Performance settings (such as removing fading, animation, shadows, etc), when a new user logs on: make all of the changes desired under one username (with admin rights). log in as a different administrator delete the “Default User” folder in Documents and Settings copy the desired user configuration folder and rename it to Default User. This saves some settings that don’t get saved by copying the subfolders into the Default User folder. WORDPERFECT 8 and 9 WP 8 or 9's default document folder setting will not accept the %userprofile% or %username% variables or use the My Documents folder (C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents) without hard coding the user name, which means on a multi-user machine the default file location will have to be set manually for each user (to keep saved files) or left at the default of C:\MyFiles which can be either cleaned out during a logout procedure or left there depending on the computer's function. While trying to configure the default file location WP 8 (sp5) froze up. The first time I de-installed it and re-installed it. The second time I de-installed it and installed WP 9. REGISTRY SETTINGS to turn off Master Browser List As more and more workstations have the ability to become a master browser, the possibility of browser elections unnecessarily consuming network bandwidth seems to point to the advisability of turning this feature off in all but a few computers, probably servers that are on continuously. Using Regedt32 in XP or 2000 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\ Name: MaintainServerList Type: REG_SZ Value: No - computer can not host a browser server. Preferred setting for heavily used servers and most NT workstations. If you set it to NO, you need to disable the Browser service or you will get a error because the service can not start. The service is only used to maintain a browse list, it has nothing to do with whether you can browse the network. Value: Yes - computer will serve as a browser server. Upon startup, this computer attempts to contact the master browser to get a current browse list. If the master browser cannot be found, the computer will force a browser election. This computer will either be elected master browser or become a backup browser. Yes is the default value for Windows NT Server. You usually have BDCs set to this value. Value: Auto - computer, referred to as a potential browser, may or may not become a browser, depending on the number of currently active browsers. The master browser notifies this computer whether or not it will become a backup browser . Auto is the default value for computers running Windows NT Workstation. I believe No is a better setting for most networks.   ALSO SEE: Cloning Windows XP

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