User Profiles?
User Profiles are a really, really, cool feature of Win95. Not only can you set a personalized desktop for each user and have personal Start Menus, but you can have personalized settings for MS Exchange, Word for 95, or pretty much any program that stores user preferences in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the Registry! Profiles will also follow a user around in a centralized network, copying their program settings to each station as required. To turn on User Profiles, run the Passwords control panel. Regardless of whether you installed Networking or not, you turn on “Users may select their own preferences” on the User Profiles tab. Custom Desktops and Start Menus are actually one of these user preferences. You can enable or enforce User Profiles, but it’s up to the users if they want their shortcuts to be unique to them. Regardless of user profile preferences, Win95 creates a Profiles folder, and a sub-folder for each user to store a personal copy of USER.DAT, the user portion of The Registry. I
