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I'll try leaving for 5 min or so and see what I get. We don't have wireless in whole school so they have local accounts to allow use of laptops in those areas. In those areas they would never of had a network connection to be able to lose. Local User has been set with no network share available.

We have a batch of laptops available for students to use running WinXP SP3 and Office 2003. These laptops have a 'Local User' account set for the students to use when wireless is not available. On some of these laptops, when you click on Save or Save As in MS Word nothing happens. If you close the document and click yes to save, nothing happens, if you click no the document closes, then if you click to close Word a message comes up saying changes have been made to the Global Template and do you want to save, if you say yes the message goes but Word stays open and the same appears when you click to close Word again. This only affects the 'Local User' account, the local admin or network user accounts don't seem to have the problem. I have tried deleting the profile for 'Local User' but this has not cured the problem. Has anyone come across this problem before, I have run all the latest Office updates but no joy.

Thanks for all your help ThePurtser. The policy is now working.

I have tried adding hiddenfiles.adm created from your post but get the following error when adding to 'Add/Remove template'. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Administrative Templates --------------------------- The following error occurred in \\****.local\SysVol\****.local\Policies\{5EA80EC9-EE7A-4C30-B7B4-273C9B3CC9C8}\Adm\hiddenfiles.adm on line 6:Error 62 The corresponding string was not found in the [strings] sectionFound: !!hiddenfilesandfoldersThe file can not be loaded. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------

Sorry, I'm running behind. That was a reply to KCLeblanc. I'm upgrading SIMS at the moment.

The policy is applied to the user configuration.

I have set Folder Options not to be shown in AD.

WindowsXP Pro clients on Server2003 All users on the network are able to see hidden files and folders. I have several different images and it is the same for all. When the images are made I create a local user to check all is working locally and make sure that Folder Options are set to default (do not show hidden files and folders and hide system files) when finished, I then copy the local users profile to the default user. Sysprep is prepaired and an image taken. Once the image has been istalled, sysprep run and attached to the domain it is possible for Domain Users to see hidden files and folders, they do not have to change settings, infact pupils do not have the option to go in and change settings. We are running Active Directory but as far as I can see there is no option AD for setting this. Does anyone have ideas?