Well, there's no guarantee that what's in the All Users folder is the
factory settings, either, of course. It's whatever your admin has set
it up to be.
To answer your question, though, I don't think that's enough. There are
things in some INI files that you want to keep, but there are also
things in the same INI files that you want to change. So just making
the decision at the file level won't be good enough no matter what. And
which things those are is implementation dependent, so it's likely to
change frequently and without notice.
What is your goal here? Wiping out the entirety of a user's
customizations doesn't seem like a very useful thing. If they wanted to
do that, it seems they'd just delete the profile or create a new one.
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
What if only set files are copied from the All Users folder?
Jamal
On Mon, 4 Aug
2008, Ron Parker wrote:
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:27:13 -0400
From: Ron Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Restoring factory settings
People more knowledgeable than I will probably address the rest of your
question, but I wanted to jump in to point out that if you copy all
files from All Users to the user profile folder, you will break the
trust mechanism, and you will revert the trust level to "only trusted
scripts" with no scripts or publishers trusted by default, regardless of
what the settings are in the All Users profile.
That's by design, to mitigate certain potential attack vectors, so it's
not a bug and it's not going to change.
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
Should a script copy all files from the All Users folder to the user
profile folder? Should the file mask be more selective than *.* such as
*.0* instead?
