Hardware Profiles

Hardware profiles are known configuration states for a specific computer— such as docked or undocked, in the case of a portable computer. Hardware profiles enable Windows 95 to adjust system capabilities to match the current state of the hardware. For example, when a portable computer is undocked, Windows 95 removes the system's printing and networking capabilities.

For more information, see Cahpter 15, "User Profiles and System Policies," and Chapter 19, "Devices."

Tips for the administrator

• User profiles are an option that you can enable at any time. They are not installed by default. A 32-bit network client is required to support user profiles.
• You can also define mandatory user profiles in a file called USER.MAN for all users who log on to a specific home directory of a network server. This mandatory user profile protects novice users from inadvertently making changes to their environment.