The same brief disorientation you experience can completely confuse inexperienced users. And picky users may spend valuable time readjusting settings to their tastes. Fortunately, when Microsoft gave users the freedom to design their workstations any way they wanted, it also gave network administrators the ability to control and manage this freedom. Starting with Windows 95, Microsoft created user profiles. User profiles allow you to centrally store the users' desktop preferences in a central location.
Users can customize their workstations any way they want.
Changes made by a user are saved to that user's profile. When it finds the user's profile, it copies the desktop preferences to the workstation and installs them before the user sees the desktop. As users travel from workstation to workstation on the network, their desktop preferences follow them. It appears to the user as if all the workstations are identical. All the confusion of different settings on different workstations disappears.