Visually Impared Children + HOWTO Questions

**Inox** · 16th February 2006, 03:49 PM

Hi guys,

I need some help/advice on best practices please.

Situation:

Primarys School has laptops and desktops, all XP pro +win2k3 server with AD.
School has "a few" visually impared pupils.
IT Co-ordinator has asked me to make all icons a larger size.

Now in XP Pro I know you can alter this on a per user basis, but does anyone know a way to do this through AD? Or a better way of doing it.

I am thinking (as I can t find AD option) that logging on as each user and changing the icons for that user (we use roaming profiles) will be the best/easiest option.

Any advice/ideas would be welcome.

Thanks,

Anton

**ChrisH** · 16th February 2006, 04:00 PM

Your probably going to end up setting the roaming profile yourself I would have thought unless you can hunt down all the relevant reg keys and make them into some kind of logon script. You could try using regmon for this I suppose.

Just depends which way you want to try and tackle it.

**E1uSiV3** · 16th February 2006, 04:37 PM

Give them access to the magnifier?

**Dos_Box** · 16th February 2006, 04:42 PM

Default user profile?

**pete** · 16th February 2006, 05:08 PM

you might want to look at calling rez.exe through a script to change screen resolution as well.

**Sirbendy** · 20th February 2006, 11:16 AM

I have a util lurking on here somewhere that can change the screen res on a "per session" basis that I stick in the user areas of kids that "need" it. I can dig it out if you want to have a play.