Winexit screen saver in domain environment - need a few more detai

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Hello,

I have nearly the same situation described by as the user ArrrghBob (his
post is reproduced right below my question). We are trying to employ
the winexit.scr screensaver to make sure that public computer lab users
cannot leave themselves logged in. These domain users are simply classified
as Users in Active Directory for our university. We do not manage this
domain, so cannot classify them as Power Users or Admins. Right now,
Winexit.scr only runs for me when I'm logged in as a local admin.

I tried to follow the directions in the "Problems with winexit.exe and
"power users"" post (8/24/2005), however when I browse to the
suggested registry key HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion, I do not see Set Value or Create Subkey here, nor do I see
these in HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Control.ini.
Perhaps it is obvious that I am not an experienced Registry Editor...I
really haven't done much with Regedit, so I guess I am missing something
here? If I need to right click and create new Keys, String Values, etc. what
do I write and where exactly do I stick the new entries?

Can you point me in the right direction?

Many thanks in advance!
-Chris
 
Whoops. HERE is ArrghBob's post that I mentioned in mine:

"I am a computer lab technician at Gonzaga University. I manage 150
computers all using winXP sp2 in a lab setting. We are trying to use a
microsoft product called winexit.exe. I have installed the new version for
XP. We are on an active directory system here. We use to have no problem
when our lab computers were running Win2000, and our users were all in the
administrators group. Now we have tightened up security by placing all our
users in the power users group.

Also, we used to set our winexit.exe screen saver settings logged on as
administrator then copy our administrator profile over our default user
profile.

When we try to rely on the default user profile now to initiate winexit.exe,
nothing happens. So we have gone to trying to use the group policy settings
in active directory. We have had a minor success with that. As long as an
administrator is logged on, winexit works properly. But when someone in the
power users group is logged on, winexit fails when it attempts to log them
off. An error message appears that says:
Error encountered while creating registry key. Make sure you have Set Value
and Create Subkey permissions.

Once we click "OK" on that, the log off continues properly.

I have tried adding the power users group to all the main registry keys and
editing the permissions to include those permissions, but it still happens.

I am open to having any kind of auto log off that will work consistently
with new profiles on an active directory, WinXP sp2 system."
 
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