Using Group Policy for Centralized Setting Management

If you understand what Group Policy is, feel free to skip to the next section. Otherwise, if you want to know what Group Policy is and why you should care, let me go over it briefly for you. Many applications that you use on your computer have settings that you modify on occasion. The value for many of these settings is stored in your computer's Registry. For example, the Display Properties dialog enables you to change the image displayed on the desktop. The name of the image file that is selected to display is stored in the Registry in the value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\Wallpaper. Suppose that as an administrator you want to display the logo of ...

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