No Clock & Default Printer

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Ron Piccinini

I have a Term Serv user that is unable to see the clock/time in her menu
bar. Any ideas??

Also, the same user must set her default printer everytime she logs on to a
session.
 
Why doesn't she just turn the clock on? She should just
be able to right click the task bar, click properties, and
the click the show clock check box.

Is this person's account setup to set the default printer
to be her redirected client printer?

-M
 
What if the user doesn't have the option to change the Menu & Taskbar
Settings due to policies??? Is there a specific policy or registry key to
activate this for all users???

Jeroen
 
Be careful with this "hack". The value needed is only one bit long. Change the first bit in the second hex character only.

The value appears in 9 byte of the binary value and is composeed of two hex characters. Turn on or off the high bit of the second hex char.

Example: (the red one.


28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff
03,00,00,00,03,00,00
00,6b,00,00,00,22,00
00,00,00,00,00,00,3e
03,00,00,80,04,00,00
60,03,00,00

This is a hex 0 and a hex 3. A 3 is 0011 binary. Turn on the high bit thus -> 1011 and it becomes
Hex "B" so now you have 0B. Carefully change this with the registry editor and save then use taskmgr
and kill "explorer.exe" then use taskmgr to run explorer.exe and "voila'" the clock changes. Turn the
bit on and the clock disappears. turn the bit off and the clock reappears.

This will work on WIndows XP, 2000, 2003.

You can write a script to toggle this bit on any system and it will take effect the next time the user logs on.

This is helpful for Windows Terminal Server as TS turns the clock off by default and forces the users to know how to turn it on. We like to lock the context menu to reduce user problems so doing this with a script is important. Be aware of the extra 143 bytes per second of network traffic that is needed to keep the clock updated on TS clients. 1000 clients adds 143KBPS to the network. Not much on a modern network but costly if you are running over the Internet.

If you make a mistake just delete the whole "StuckRects2" key and it will be rebuilt by Explorer the next time it starts up.
 
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