Visually Impared Children + HOWTO Questions

[Inox]

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]

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]

Give them access to the magnifier?

[Dos_Box]

Default user profile?

[pete]

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

[Sirbendy]

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.

[russdev]

use to have regmon keys for stuff like that here will have a look for it later

 

russ

[Inox]

wow, thanks for the responses guys, i'm back in the school on thurs, so will try and revisit this problem then and try out some of these suggestions