bobthenob Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Hi thanks for a great forumits helped me out loads I set my users folder to D: </FirstLogonCommands>- <Display> <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution> <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution> </Display>- <FolderLocations> <ProfilesDirectory>D:\Users</ProfilesDirectory> </FolderLocations> </component>which works fine for my uattended dvd my user is set as ownerif i format c then reinstallmy user becomes owner.mrcomputer (the name i used for computer name in unattended.xml)is there any way around this other than add a user (temp)logon to new user Tempdelete owner.mrcomputerrename owner to owner.mrcomputer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 you cannot perform a re-install and expect to use an older profile immediately during the install process. When the Owner account is created on the re-install it finds the old Owner folder (d:\Users\Owner) already exists and instead is forced to use %username%.%computername%. This is by design and there is no known work-around.The solution is either fully rename/delete the (d:\Users\Owner) before re-installing from media. Or instead of moving the entire user profile, could try the shell folders registry tweak and only move the desktop/my docs/favorites as needed. This would behave in the manner you are accustomed too.Yet another solution is to capture your image with (acronis, ghost, imagex, whatever) and instead of re-installing, just restore the baseline. This is faster than re-installing and IMO is the best method of the three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthenob Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 thanks for your replyi thought as much cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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