bigfatroundguy Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I have been spending some time trying to load RunOnce located in HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion in an effort to tweak what I thought was the Default User Profile. I was trying to have certain activities occur as each new user gets created. I have been trying to do this logged on as an administrator. No matter what I have tried, nothing has worked. Upon further research, I have discovered that HKU\.DEFAULT, being capitalized is a hive, is located at %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\config\default and that the Default User Profile is NTUSER located at %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Default User and that is in fact the file I should be tweaking. I have learned to tweak it using the REG LOAD and REG UNLOAD approach. Using this approach I have succeeded, however, I remain a little confused.So here is my question(s) are the two "default profiles" actually related? If so, how? Does one update the other and if so, when? Should I every try and tweak HKU\.DEFAULT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snrub Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 HKCU\.DEFAULT is the LOCAL SYSTEM user profile hive, as it doesn't have a profile on disk to pull NTUSER.DAT from.You don't want to go messing in there really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 This is an unattended Windows question and has been covered before in that forum:here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfatroundguy Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Thank you Takeshi, that was a very helpful pointer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now