IE 10 Preferences Behavior

So I am working on converting some IE Maintenance policies to IE 10 GPP to support Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients with IE 10 and 11.
I understand that I need to use preferences but am a bit confused about how the application of these preferences work. For instance, when I create a new IE 10 preference item all of the settings for IE are included in that one item, but only the settings
I have manually configured are actually applied. Any other settings seem to follow what the user has configured.
The problem is that in the interface there is no visual indicator to tell you which settings you have configured and which are defaults. Also, once I have configured a particular setting, there is no way to 'un-configure' it. I can change it to a different
setting but can't reverse it to allow the user to take precedence over the GPP.
Is what I am observing accurate? Is there any guidance on how to configure these GPP items? Thanks!

Group Policy Preferences do not revert back to the previous setting which it is removed. There is an option to remove when no longer applied. However this normally deletes the setting (e.g. registry key) when you remove it so it has to be done with caution.
The setting in a new I Group Policy Preferences are close to the default setting for the program it self. However there is no way to reset the value back to original without manually configuring it back to original or deleting it and creating a new
one...
I have a bunch of links to Microsoft articles about Group Policy Preferences on my web site at
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/group-policy-preferences/ that should give you a start on more guidance...
Hope that helps.
Alan Burchill (MVP)
http://www.grouppolicy.biz
@alanburchill
Alan,
Thanks for the response!
I am aware of how GPP works, but this is more of an issue with how the IE 10 GPP items work. When you configure an item, it contains every possible IE setting. The settings I manually configure in the item seem to get applied to the user and the ones I leave
alone don't get applied.
If I modify a setting it begins applying to the user. Essentially I see this as moving the setting from an 'unconfigured' state to a 'configured' state. However, there is no way to see which items have been manually configured and which are still at default.
This matters because any items I have manually configured will continue to be applied. If a user changes their settings they could be overwritten by the policy and I will be unable to tell if this is a setting I have configured.
Thanks!

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* JFClient.java
* Created on February 15, 2006, 4:31 PM
package util;
* @author dimitri
public class JFClient extends javax.swing.JFrame {
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    public JFClient() {
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        JFCManager.getJFCManager().addClient(this);
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     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Generated Code ">
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        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        pack();
    // </editor-fold>
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
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* JFCManager.java
* Created on 19 marzo 2006, 19.26
* To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager
* and open the template in the editor.
package util;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException;
import java.util.prefs.Preferences;
* @author Dimitri
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    private static JFCManager instance;
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        p=Preferences.userRoot().node(_node);
        try {
            p.flush();
        } catch (BackingStoreException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        clientsTable=new Hashtable<Component,Integer> ();
        instance=this;
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        return instance;
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        Integer key=Integer.valueOf(client.getJFClientKEY().hashCode());
        System.out.println(client.getJFClientKEY()+" "+client.getJFClientKEY().hashCode());
        clientsTable.put(client,key);
        client.addComponentListener(this);
    public void removeClient(JFClient client){
        client.removeComponentListener(this);
    public void componentMoved(ComponentEvent componentEvent) {
        Component compo=componentEvent.getComponent();
        java.awt.Point point =compo.getLocation();
        if(clientsTable.containsKey(compo)){
            Integer key=(Integer)clientsTable.get(compo);
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                p.flush();
            } catch (BackingStoreException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
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        Component compo=componentEvent.getComponent();
        int w =compo.getWidth();
        int h =compo.getHeight();
        if(clientsTable.containsKey(compo)){
            Integer key=(Integer)clientsTable.get(compo);
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            p.putInt(key+"_height",h);
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                p.flush();
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        Component compo=componentEvent.getComponent();
        int w =compo.getWidth();
        int h =compo.getHeight();
        if(clientsTable.containsKey(compo)){
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                p.flush();
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    public void componentShown(ComponentEvent componentEvent) {
        Component compo=componentEvent.getComponent();
        int w =compo.getWidth();
        int h =compo.getHeight();
        if(clientsTable.containsKey(compo)){
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            try {
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            } catch (BackingStoreException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
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        h=p.getInt(key+"_height",100);
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        visible=p.getBoolean(key+"_visible",true);
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Strange preference behavior

Hi all.
This morning I started up my computer and FCP and it immediately prompted me to set my scratch disk. I figured my preferences were hosed so I wentto the folder to trash them. At first the Final Cut Pro 6.0 Preferences was not there. Then I looked again and it WAS there but it disappeared when I clicked on it. I got out of the folder and got back in and it was there so I trashed it (and the others) and launched FCP again. Again it asked me to set my scratch disk. I set it and made a test project....noticed all my favorites were gone etc. then saved and restarted my computer. This time the log in was acting wacky and it took me 2 times to log in. Then when it finally let me, I launched FCP again and it DID NOT ask me to reset my scratch disk and it automatically loaded up a project that I haven't had open for 2 days(and hasn't been opening on launch since then either) . Suddenly all my favorites from 2 days ago were there! Any one know what the heck is happening here?
I am on FCP 6.0.2 on a Power Mac G5 running 10.4.11. I am one of about 6 that is connected to an xsan here are the specs of that:
3xRaid nodes with 2 controllers, 7 drives at 500gigs. 5 media array with a hot spare, RAID 5. Fiber - 4 gig channel. 3 xServers - metadata controller. about 11 Terabytes available to work with.
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Message was edited by: esimpsoneditor

I have little experience with network login and sharing user files from an xSan. It gives me the heebie-jeebies. Anyway, did you by any chance go out to the finder and toss the prefs while the "reset scratch disks" window was still open?
Usually that alert only means that some some volume in your list of scratch disks is not mounted at the time you launch FCP, but is not indicative of any problem with your prefs. I usually either just quit and mount the missing volume, if I know which it is, or go ahead and reset the scratch disks, removing the missing drive from the list.
If your prefs are reverting to previous states, there may be some duplicate preference files somewhere on your network that are getting used if you log in differently. "Fraid I can't be of much help to you there...
Max Average

Early 2009 software-hardware audio problems

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Sep 15 18:18:32 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateCORB == fCodecRequest->state ) = CORB engine stuck or response was missing"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.c pp" at line 2013 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:32 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/IOHDAFamily/IOHDACodecDevice.cpp" at line 128 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:32 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != runVerb ( kIOHDAVerbSetPinWidgetControl, savedPinWidgetControlValue, &savedPinWidgetControlValue )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 2028 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:32 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDAEngine.cpp" at line 8255 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:38 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateCORB == fCodecRequest->state ) = CORB engine stuck or response was missing"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.c pp" at line 2013 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:38 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/IOHDAFamily/IOHDACodecDevice.cpp" at line 128 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:38 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDANode.cpp" at line 370 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:38 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != fHDAFunctionGroup->powerState ( &restorePowerState )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 333 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:39 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateCORB == fCodecRequest->state ) = CORB engine stuck or response was missing"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.c pp" at line 2013 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:39 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/IOHDAFamily/IOHDACodecDevice.cpp" at line 128 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:39 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 1935 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:40 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateCORB == fCodecRequest->state ) = CORB engine stuck or response was missing"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.c pp" at line 2013 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:40 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/IOHDAFamily/IOHDACodecDevice.cpp" at line 128 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:40 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 2208 goto Exit
Sep 15 18:18:40 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != result" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDA/AppleHDAWidget.cpp" at line 1938 goto handler
Sep 15 18:18:41 halfway-mini kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateCORB == fCodecRequest->state ) = CORB engine stuck or response was missing"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-171.1.2/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.c pp" at line 2013 goto handler
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Nautilus 3.16 Cannot double-click with Icon-View to open items

I'm updated testing/nautilus-3.16, and it cannot double-click to open ever items.
But goto Preferences -> Behavior to set ' Single click to open items '
Single click is working on nautilus, It's can single click to open items.
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Not have anything error code in Terminal.
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Last edited by MayKiller (2015-04-02 10:55:18)

ewaller wrote:
Moving to testing.
Maykiller, you reported the thread to the moderators. Did you perhaps mean to reply to the thread?
Sorry for that, I clicked 'report', it's wrong.
I was mean it is reply for that user...
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Does it have to do with this?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3686148?tstart=0
If all you want to do is smooth out bad camera work, use the Smooth Behavior in Motion. Make sure you have Optical Flow selected.
Have fun
x

The problem of Parcellite.

If I copy some words in firefox and then close it, the clipboard will be cleared.
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Is it normal? And how to solve it?
My WM is awesome.

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Mail 5.3 won't delete emails

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Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox. Try to delete the messages again.

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Original Reply:
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How do I edit menus in XFCE 4.6 svn?

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Kyle Carter wrote:ALSO, is there a way I can get my applications menu on a desktop right-click again? I can get it as a submenu of the regular desktop menu, but there used to be an option for REPLACING that desktop menu.
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Issue 1:
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One small suggestion: UI and formatting on this discussion.apple.com seems very old and painful now. Stackoverflow offers excellent in this area. Kindly try to renovate this site with rich and easy features.

If you saved the passwords in another browser, then Safari is not automatically authorized to access them, nor is any other application. That's the whole point of the keychain. You should only get the prompt once for each password.

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3. I click on another account in the list on the left.
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After tinkering around a little bit, I found that there was a "Guest" home folder in the Users folder. I thought that this was strange because I thought that this folder is created when you actually log into the guest account (I checked on another computer and found that this was indeed the case). I then deleted this "Guest" home folder and emptied the trash.
I again went through the same steps I did above (with a Finder window on the Users folder displayed) and found that when I check the box to enable the Guest Account, a "Guest" home folder appears in the Users folder. I deleted and repeated this process a number of times, all with the same result. I then began looking around for other occurrences of this problem.
At some point, I came across this discussion, which seemed to pose a possible solution: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9176908#9176908
As suggested in that thread, I tried creating a standard user with a home folder by the name of "Guest" or "guest". I filled in all the fields but when I clicked on "Create Account", it seems to work and then goes back to the Accounts preference pane except that the account I just created +*is not there!*+ I then tried this while the "Guest" home folder existed in the Users folder and it brings up a window asking whether I want to use the current "Guest" home folder as the home folder for the new account. Even if I click OK, +*the account still does not appear.*+
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I would be very grateful if anyone has an answer.
-Nik

As it turns out, the Guest folder behavior is actually normal, but I still have not figured out why the guest account still doesn't work. My next step will be to try a disk repair. I've repaired the permissions, but that didn't seem to help as far as I know. I'll also try reinstalling the combo updater to 10.5.6 (as suggested by a co-worker) and see if that does anything. Last resort is the archive and reinstall.

Dock preferences and behaviors changed since 10.6.3 update

I just updated and have a strange behavior in my Dock. Previously I set dock to auto-hide, but since the 10.6.3 update the dock behavior has changed. The dock is now fixed at the bottom of the screen and I can't change any of the dock settings in preferences. The dock preference page will display but all the check boxes and drop downs are greyed out by the OS.
Anyone have any idea where to start? My thought is to delete the plist for dock and allow it to rebuild to default. Does anyone have an alternative suggestion? Thanks.

Pete,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
...My thought is to delete the plist for dock and allow it to rebuild to default.
That would be the first thing to try.
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If neither of those steps work and you used Software Update to install 10.6.3, try downloading and installing the Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update (Combo).
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IMac mouse problems / strange behavior (impossible to configure mouse preferences)

I work in a design and communication school, the used hardware is iMac (Intel) whit Lion (OS X 10.7), we have several rooms equipped with these Macs where students light up their data on the server.
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Owner and group corrected on ./Library
Permissions corrected on ./Library
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions repair complete
Permissions differ on ., should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxr-xr-x
Owner and group corrected on .
Permissions corrected on .
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
I reported this to Apple and they told me to erase the hard drive reinstall the
system. I really don't want to have to do that. It seems like something is taking
control of the machine.....

Strange behavior in System Preferences when trying to change backgrounds

Running 10.5.1 on my MacBook Pro without a hitch until today. Installed Aperture 1.5 and updated it to 1.5.6 last night and it too works fine.
However, today when I went to change my background image in System Preferences I encountered some strange voodoo. I originally under the Desktop applet in System Preferences I had the default images and folders supplied with the operating system, and one images folder I maintain under my Documents folder for my personal backgrounds.
Now I am no longer able to view my personal backgrounds folder in the System Preferences Desktop applet to select one of my images as a background. Instead I have, literally, two occurrences of the Aperture Projects folder listed under the default operating system background image options.
Initially I found I cannot discard either instance of the Aperture folder, nor can I re-add my personal images folder (states the folder is already in the list as an option). Naturally I figured something might be amiss with permissions. So I rebooted and ran the Disk Utility which checked my drive to find no pertinent errors. No change in symptom.
Next I renamed my personal images folder. This produced a change in symptom.
Now I only observed one occurrence of the Aperture Projects Folder in the System Preferences applet. However, when I went to add my newly renamed personal images folder the second occurrence of the Aperture Projects folder appeared and would not let me access anything therein.
Could certainly be a problem specific to Aperture, but thought it worth posting here in case anybody else wants to try to troubleshoot or has the same voodoo. Plus, the problem did not occur in 10.4.X running Aperture - so I think it is pretty specific to 10.5.1.
Not a show stopper, but certainly weird. Hopefully not indicative of any additional problems lurking under the covers.
TIA for any input or responses.

Confirmed bug in Aperture on 10.5.1 - adding an iphoto library solves the issue in case anybody hits this post and suffers the same malady.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5847357&#5847357

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