When you're outside of a domain environment, XP has some features missing. XP Home leaves you completely without the Group Policy Editor, while XP Pro lacks the ability to use the Group Policy Editor to selectively apply policies to specific users.

Well, that's about to change.

Doug's Windows XP Security Console allows you to assign various restrictions to specific users, whether you're running XP Pro or XP Home.

The unlicensed version will allow you to apply a number of user specific settings, while logged on to that user's Desktop.

With the licensed version, you can load another user's profile, make the desired changes, and save them. WITHOUT HAVING TO LOG ON to their Desktop. You can also create a set of "Default" settings and save them for future use.

Only one user profile, either the currently logged on user, or a "loaded" user profile, can be loaded at one time. However, with the licensed version, you can create a "default" set of settings and quickly apply them to other user profiles.