All the check boxes are selected when you enable a Group Policy setting in Windows Vista

When you enable a Group Policy setting in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or in Microsoft Windows XP, all the check boxes that appear on the Group Policy setting are not selected. However, when you enable a Group Policy setting in Windows Vista, all the check boxes that appear on the Group Policy setting are selected.

This behavior occurs because the Windows Vista Group Policy Object Editor differs from the Windows Server 2003 Group Policy Object Editor and from the Windows XP Group Policy Object Editor. By default, all the check boxes that appear on the Group Policy setting are selected when you enable a Group Policy setting in Windows Vista.

By default, the behavior for check boxes in the Administrative Template for Windows Vista is as follows:

• All the check boxes are selected when a Group Policy setting is enabled.
• The DEFCHECKED keyword does not affect the default check box behavior.
• You cannot change the default behavior so that all the check boxes are not selected when a Group Policy setting is enabled.

By default, the behavior for check boxes in the Administrative Template for Windows Server 2003 and in the Administrative Template for Windows XP is as follows:

• All the check boxes are not selected when a Group Policy setting is enabled.
• The DEFCHECKED keyword does affect the default check box behavior.