The Group Policy Management Console allows you to configure preferences when you edit any domain-based Group Policy object. The Preferences node appears under Computer Configuration and User Configuration. The editor displays preference extensions under two categories: Windows Settings and Control Panel Settings.

Preference extensions under Windows Settings include:

• Applications Extension: Configure settings for applications.
  
  
• Drive Maps Extension: Create, modify, or delete mapped drives, and configure the visibility of all drives.
  
  
• Environment Extension: Create, modify, or delete environment variables.
  
  
• Files Extension: Copy, modify the attributes of, replace, or delete files.
  
  
• Folders Extension: Create, modify, or delete folders.
  
  
• Ini Files Extension: Add, replace, or delete sections or properties in configuration settings (.ini) or setup information (.inf) files.
  
  
• Network Shares Extension: Create, modify, or delete ("un-share") shares.
  
  
• Registry Extension: Copy registry settings and apply them to other computers. Create, replace, or delete registry settings.
  
  
• Shortcuts Extension: Create, modify, or delete shortcuts.
  
  

Preference extensions under Control Panel Settings include:

• Data Sources Extension: Create, modify, or delete Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data source names.
  
  
• Devices Extension: Enable or disable hardware devices or classes of devices.
  
  
• Folder Options Extension: Configure folder options; create, modify, or delete Open With associations for file name extensions; create, modify, or delete file name extensions associated with a type of files.
  
  
• Internet Settings Extension: Modify user-configurable Internet settings.
  
  
• Local Users and Groups Extension: Create, modify, or delete local users and groups.
  
  
• Network Options Extension: Create, modify, or delete virtual private networking (VPN) or dial-up networking connections.
  
  
• Power Options Extension: Modify power options and create, modify, or delete power schemes.
  
  
• Printers Extension: Create, modify, or delete TCP/IP, shared, and local printer connections.
  
  
• Regional Options Extension: Modify regional options.
  
  
• Scheduled Tasks Extension: Create, modify, or delete scheduled or immediate tasks.
  
  
• Services Extension: Modify services.
  
  
• Start Menu Extension: Modify Start menu options.