user profiles

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...

Hi, new to the forums with a issue regarding my files back in XP. I'm dual booting the public beta Build 7000 (32 bit) with XP Media Center Edition (SP3, 32 bit). Each OS resides on a separate physical drive. AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe 4 GB RAM GeForce 7900GS AVG Free My...

I have a unique problem using Visita Home Premium. I imported file from my old computer to my new computer. I imported my favorites from IE, e-mail from Mail program in Vista and data for my palm pilot. Sometimes when I enter the program all my favorites are there, my e-mail is there and my data...

Recently, my PC with Windows Vista Home Premium completely lost the login screen. It was turned off for the night and the next day all it was was a black screen with no profiles to sign into.All I get it a black screen with the mouse on it. I had a computer person come and try to fix it, and...

I have read article after article and have been unable to answer this question: Does vista virtualize only certain resources? For instance, is virtualization limited only to Program Files, Users, and Windows folders and HKLM\Software in the registry? Can I create a limited access folder on...