Default User Help

[aahmad]

I have built an image, and used a one of our user's accounts as the template. We operate in a law firm and our images contain many customizations. So seemingly I got everything working after copying the profile to default user and going in the registry and changing all "c:\documents and settings\usertemplate" to %userprofile%. Now not everything is pointing to that particular user but instead their own profiles. However when I clean the image up and remove from domain to backup, then readd to domain and test the setup again the user I used to create the default user template can log in but their profile does not create. When I type %userprofile% it takes me to the last user's profile that just logged in. How bizarre? Any experts out there? Thanks!

[TheReasonIFail]

I do the exact same thing with our image in terms of editing the default user profile but I've never changed anything in the registry to achieve this. Why is it you're making those changes in the registry?

How are you copying the profile? A straight copy of the profile will not work, you'll need to go to the user profile settings under the advanced tab in the "My Computer" properties.

Try it again, but this time dont make any changes to the registry.

[aahmad]

I do the exact same thing with our image in terms of editing the default user profile but I've never changed anything in the registry to achieve this. Why is it you're making those changes in the registry?

How are you copying the profile? A straight copy of the profile will not work, you'll need to go to the user profile settings under the advanced tab in the "My Computer" properties.

Try it again, but this time dont make any changes to the registry.

I do exactly that, however the changes in the registry I have to do under default user as a lot of entries pertain to the user template profile. For example if I got usera to default user and open the registry keys for default user you will find a lot of items pointing towards "c:\documents and settings\usera\......."

I take that and change those entries to %userprofile% and there are a few things under HKLM registry entries also pointing. If those changes are not made then when you log on as a new user some items will point to the profile usera instead of the new user profile. Thats the only way I know how to do it so far. So tell my why Microsoft can't make us a utility for all of this?!? BTW, I resolved my problem, actually the profile was not deleted from under user profiles in system properties. Once I removed the user was able to log in with no problems and no roaming profile issues. Thanks though!!