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How to edit default profile

 
 
Greg Bowers
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      08-04-2008
In XP, we changed the registry so that we had an admin account profile
pointing at the Default User profile. So that when we looked in with this
account anything we changed was done in the Default User profile. So that
when users log in, they get a standard profile that was created using the
edited Default User profile. This is what we did in XP:
Edit the registry so that the temp account's profile path points to the
Default User's profile path.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\]
Default User's profile path is usually C:\Documents and
Settings\Default User\

When I did the same thing for Vista using Users instead of Docs and settings
and Default instead of Default User, I can log in and get the Default
profile, but I can not do anything. Everything is greyed out, not able to
add new folders to desktop. Noticed that all the default folders are read
only and not able to make them no-read only, even logging in as the Admin
account.

What do I need to do to fix this problem?
 
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