HKCU settings not sticking

[dpolkinhorn]

Hi all,

I'm syspreping an XP machine in preparation for ghosting. In the sysprep, I've added a cmdlines.txt that adds some registry keys within a reg file. Unfortunately, none of those settings are being transferred to new users that login.

I've basically mirrored this page. Under the Current User section, it mentions that because the default user is current these settings will get transferred to the default user portion of the registry. I can tell the reg file is running because I added a HKLM setting in to make sure. The HKLM setting is in the registry after setup.

My cmdlines.txt looks like this (the diskpart command is executing during setup):

[Commands]
"DISKPART /s C:\sysprep\OPTION\script.txt"
"REGEDIT /S C:\sysprep\OPTION\hkcu.reg"

For brevity, I've removed most of the reg file settings in my reg. One of the settings in the reg file is for the Desktop Cleanup wizard:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Don't run desktop cleanup wizard
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz]
"NoRun"=dword:00000001

Any thing else I should try to get these settings for all new users on the machine? I've searched all over, and I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

-Danny

Edited February 19, 2008 by dpolkinhorn

[Arie]

Instead of only using HKEY_CURRENT_USER, try using HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT as well.