user profiles

Argh! I'm driving myself nuts trying to figure this out. Somebody must have tackled this. Win7 graciously supplied my "home" directory (c:\Users\jfs) with a bunch of folders I don't want -- My Videos, My Pictures to name a few. For heaven's sake, how do I get rid of them? I've been doing...

I keep getting the 2203 Error regardring MSI and tried several fixes including MS Utility Cleaner. Unfortuatlety it won't allow me to install it even as admin. So, I read someone's post in another forum to create a new profile, bring over all my stuff then just delete the old profile. It seems...

I am running Windows 7 professional. The problem is as follows. I need to connect to work through a VPN. While this VPN is active, I want to be able to visit websites and do things that do not run through the VPN. The VPN client is the one provided with Windows 7 that you get to when you go...

Can someone explain why there are three start menus?? 1. All Users 2. Profile 3. under ProgramData I understand the reason for one under All Users and each profile - What I don't understand is why some entries are duplicated in each. I don't understand the ProgramData Start Menu and why...

My documents are all in a partition (labelled) "Terry" reserved for, well, my documents. They're in a folder called "My Documents". But in My Computer there is a "Terry" item too. Which relates to my log-in and is in the users folder of C: And that one also contains a "My Documents" folder. (My...

I believe I've got it down to a science. 1. Unhackme - http://www.greatis.com/unhackme/ removes ALL of those Antivirus 20xx both the fake alerts and the programs that can't be uninstalled. Deals with the registry so the usuall legalese to registry modification aplies so be careful. But by...

Hello all, pardon the long explanation, I formerly used a lot of the 'copy to' functionality on XP to overwrite the default profile with a new one (for our staff computers, which used a local profile). I understand that this functionality no longer exists and they expect you to use sysprep...

My laptop has six user identities and I would like a script to log onto all of them on startup rather than doing this manually. Windows 7, like Vista fails to find logon profiles sometimes whan certain programs have been run withing a particular profile but logs on fine before any of this...

Just recently got a laptop w/ win 7. have 2 user profiles. We discovered the public desktop icons when I deleted a bunch of icons off my desktop and it affected my husbands as well. But just today when he logged on, he was missing only 4 icons, 1 of which is from the public folder, the others...

Hi, I have recently upgraded from Vista Ultimate x64 to W7 Ultimate x64 (it went very smoothly), and I have a small problem. When I select: Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Advanced > User Profiles > Settings : (phew !) There are 3 Profiles listed as usual: * Default...

I've tried searching but not found the answer. In 7, I now find my user name for various sites are not saved even though I click save. I use Firefox as my browser. This never happened with XP. Am I missing something?

Hi I actually fixed this problem while writing this, fix at the bottom! I have got Windows 7 Ultimate installed on a laptop. Everything works fine except for Media Player 12. I have two log ons, one for me (Admin rights) and one for the kids (standard user). They kids can open Media player...

saving NTUSER.DAT is easy, but how to restore it into current user account without restarting computer and having to create another account, login into that another account as administrator and copy file to that other account i am trying to restore NTUSER.DAT for ? There must be easier way to...

OK I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I can't find it. When I delete icons on my own desktop, it also takes them off the other users profiles. I have an administrator account. It takes them off the other administrator account as well as the other standard user profiles. Can anyone...

Has anyone had a problem where some of the apps won't group on the taskbar properly? I am using a roaming profile and it happens on all installations of Windows 7 (Ultimate) with this profile. If I log in locally to the same computer and use the same programs, the grouping works fine. To...

Hey guys, I get an error that states "The User Profile Service service failed logon. User profile cannot be loaded." I've gone through all the tutorials on how to fix this problem talking about checking the SID in the registry, ect ect and none if it works. Honestly i dont even think its...

Following a massive headache with the many failed attempts of figuring out this same issue with Vista, I'm back again with Windows 7. We pulled our Vista attempts with the 1,100 new computers we got and dumped XP Pro on them which has worked great. Windows 7 is looking to be very attractive...

I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop. I have two different user profiles set up, both of which I use, one for work and the other for personal. How can I make the Documents folder in profile 1 fully accessible to use in profile 2? While in profile 2, and I create a document, I have to save...

is there something you can do to allow different screen resolutions on different user profiles?

Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...