re: Question about 'Disable the Internet Connection Wizard'
Monday, October 14, 2002 at 9:36 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JimmytheGeek
(5 messages posted)
I am running win2kpro/sp1-3 on various machines, IE 5.5/sp2 When I perform the registry
surgery on the default user, a new user still gets ICW. I think MS overwrites the
ICW key with a new one, to spam users for MSN the first time they log on. This obliterates
the key from the default profile. I just love this stuff. User settings from 100
obfuscated places, hard-coded, and admin-hostile. The spam key is http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=runonce&pver=5.5&plcid=0x0409
Any clues on disabling this?
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:41 pm, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>On Thursday, December 6, 2001 at 8:09 am, Leigh wrote:
>
>I have a question about Disable
>the Internet Connection Wizard:
>
>How do you disable the Internet Connection Wizard on Windows NT for multiple users
>logging in on a domain?
>
>
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>For existing users, you have to set Completed individually for each user profile.
>:-P To avoid annoying new users, do the same for the Default User profile.
>
>
>In either case you can use REGEDT32 to load %windir%\Profiles\\NTUSER.DAT
>into a temporary branch off of HKEY_USERS and then perform surgery on the Registry
>hive for that user.
>
>
>If there are a lot of users to fix up, and you're a scripting wizard, you may be
>able to automate this by iterating over the content of Documents and Settings and
>using REG.EXE from the Resource Kit to load, patch, and unload the hives. Skip
All
>Users, since there's no hive in there.
>
>
>As usual, even thinking about touching the Registry could make your computer unbootable,
>render your dog radioactive, etc. Backups are good.
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