user profiles

I am running Windows 7 32-bit Professional and I have two local user account on my computer (Administrator Profile and Students Profile). Problem is once I join computer to domain, at logon screen only last logon profile is shown and if I want to logon as a second user I have to choose "logon...

Can I use easy file transfer from a hard drive back up image of XP? I can mount the image on my win 7 computer. Can easy file transfer pull the user profiles, data, pics, music,doc, etc from a mounted image in the same computer? The image is no longer restorable to any computer.

Hola Win7 world! For some reason, I have a problem with my computer's display brightness. Sometimes whenever I start up the computer, or change to another's profile (either the admin who is me or the other two normal users I have), the brightness goes a little dimmer. All three of us are used...

Hi there, When i turn on my computer it will boot up fine then it gets to the page of the users login (the blue screen with the user profiles) it plays the startup sound but the sound that plays is cutoff so it will only play the last second of the tune. Is there any way that i can fix this...

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This mess started after I had been playing Sims 2. The computer froze and BSOD popped up, in disbelief I didn't get any of the info from BSOD. I do remember it dumping memory or something. After the shutdown/restart Windows failed to load/start. After some investigation and a similar issue...

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Hi All I appear to have an issue with Offline files. I have a redirected Start Menu and Desktop so that users get the same interface as if they were online at work. This is an AD domain environment using GPO for all settings detailed below. Before I try the below error testing, you should...

Hey there guys, I'm running a 2003 and 2008 server the 2003 is the primary DC. Most of our PC's are XP and were testing 2 windows 7 machines. The desktops and some shared drives were stored on a nas box but it was unstable so I shifted the desktops and some public shares to a server on one...

Im hoping I missed something. Setting up printer in Win 7 on a network and setting a printer as a defualt doesnt stick for all users like it used to in XP. A bunch of posts conveying some suprisingly complex answers using Rundll32 and printui.dll for this. How to add printers with no user...

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Hi, First off I would like to say that this site has been a fantastic resource for troubleshooting my win 7 computer. I'm trying to find a way to have different default playback devices for different user accounts? Like, have "realtek" as the default playback for user A but when you...

Hello, I'm new here and I'm sorry to have such a big first post. I have a bunch of questions and this might become a bit of a complicated story, but I'll try to be as direct as possible if you don't mind helping me out: I just installed Windows 7 (64bit) a couple of days ago. Everything...

Hi everyone, I have a weird problem, made a lot of research on the internet without any conclusive solution so i hope anyone could help me. Here is the problem: People in my school have their my documents linked to the map drive F: which is on a data server. For example, When the code...

Hi all! I need to make a replica of an existing SBS Windows 2003 server which runs fine. The reason I need to do that is because I need to make some modifications to the working server and before doing this it would be better to have a second server as a backup just in case something is...

Hi, we are testing now computer running on Windows 7 with roaming profiles. I have problem which I couldn't find anywhere (possible bad keywords). It's not only one computer - at least 5 new installed computers have this issue. Problem is that whenever I want pin some shortcut from start menu...

I want to remove a picture selection from the 'Choose a new picture for your account' window which is not a 'default picture' but was added from a user. I cannot find where the added picture is located so I can remove it. It is not in the user account pictures/default pictures directory, nor...

I am used to goingto c:\documents and settings and then ripping all the garbage out of ALL USERS so that stuff doesnt get handed out to every subsequent profile that gets added so how do I do that now ???? ddecoursey@eriecountygov.org

In Group Policy there is a setting that deletes a user profile after a system restart. The setting does seem to delete/remove the user from the Registry; however, it does not delete/remove the folder for the profile's username in C:\Users. What does happen is the "Date modified" time stamp...