radial

Thanks for the above guys, now it's been put to me it makes far more sense I'm not worried about the Admin account, it's just the user accounts.. I'll give it a try tomorrow when I am less overworked and will post back Once again, Many thanks, Radial.

Any idea how I can stop this happening? I would really like to be able to use this as the default profile for people as it'd make life VERY easy from an admin point of view Cheers guys, Radial.

Cheers guys, I went with the registry settings originally, but as Bâshrat said this doesn't apply to all users... I've tried the \$OEM$\$Docs\Default User method but it doesn't seem to work.. However everything else works fine from the $OEM$ dir so it makes me think that I cannot copy over a Default User dir... Not sure if this makes a difference but I have File Protection disabled by default.. I thought this might help the cause, but aparentely not Thanks for the help so far, Radial.

Ok, here is what I am trying to do: I have set up a user on a fresh install, I've set everything to be the way I like it (layout wise, things turned on and off etc) I have then copied that profile and made the relavent mods to it to make it in to a Default User profile. When setting up new users on that fresh install with the new Default Users dir it goes like a dream, all the new users on the machine get the settings exactly as I want them. When I set up my unattended cd to copy the Default User dir I have created it doesn't appear to work, and I am fairly sure I read somewhere on here that it is possible to do but I am buggered if I can find the post... I have tried putting the Default User dir in the $Docs dir and that didn't work so I added a line to my prepare.cmd file that is called from cmdlines.txt, the like i've added is: start /wait xcopy "%systemdrive%\Install\Profiles\*.*" "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings" /E /V /H /R /K /Y I have run this command from a test batch file on a working system and it works a treat also, so I am a little stuck as to how to get this working in unattended mode, I am guessing I may be copying the dir at the wrong time perhaps ?!?! Can anyone offer any help on this one ? Many thanks, Radial.

Hi guys, Just done a build / install based on nLite with a lot removed. I would like to know if it is safe to remove the following dirs from the Windows dir after install: C:\WINDOWS\Connection Wizard C:\WINDOWS\Cursors C:\WINDOWS\addins C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch C:\WINDOWS\Help\Tours C:\WINDOWS\Connection Wizard C:\WINDOWS\ime C:\WINDOWS\java C:\WINDOWS\Media C:\WINDOWS\msagent C:\WINDOWS\msapps C:\WINDOWS\mui C:\WINDOWS\pchealth C:\WINDOWS\srchasst They are either empty or contain empty folders... Just want to know if it'll have any detrimental effect on any future software installs, or the running of Windows. Many thanks, Radial.