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re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 6:50 am Posted by Ricer46 (20470 messages posted) Did you verify that NTUSER.DAT was in fact the new one? On Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 6:24 am, dhborchardt wrote: >I want to change the default profile. I created a new user, logged in as that user, >made all the changes I wanted, logged back as the administrator, copied that profile >to the default user. I then logged in as a different user that has not logged in >yet. A few of the changes were done but most of the annoying ones were not transferred. >Examples of items that did not work: >Background image keeps going back to the pasture (Bliss) >Quick launch is not there. >Balloon tips keep coming back. I disabled them in the reg. >Explorer reverts back to showing icons instead of details. >etc. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:20 am Posted by dhborchardt (4 messages posted) Thanks. I see that the ntuser.dat file is 3 weeks old. Do I delete it? Shouldn't this get overwritten when I copy the profile? On Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 6:50 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Did you verify that NTUSER.DAT was in fact the new one? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:35 am Posted by geek9pm (913 messages posted) How to create a custom default user profile Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:57 am Posted by dhborchardt (4 messages posted) This is the document I used. Still have the same problem On Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:35 am, geek9pm wrote: > >href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974#appliesto">How to create >a custom default user profile [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9:55 am Posted by geek9pm (913 messages posted) What version of XP? Retrial? OEM? SP3? Are you in a corporate environment where some defaults can not be changed? Was your XP installed over a network? Are you using security programs that block changes to user profiles? So you use a network domain? Do you use a virtual machine on the network? Did you recent have a spy ware or malware problem that was fixed? How? There may be network security issues that block some changes to user profiles. One might be Active Desktop, some picture backgrounds require Active Desktop. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9:56 am Posted by Ricer46 (20470 messages posted) NTuser has all of the parameters you need. XP is very reluctant to allow you to write over hidden files. On Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 8:20 am, dhborchardt wrote: >Thanks. I see that the ntuser.dat file is 3 weeks old. Do I delete it? Shouldn't >this get overwritten when I copy the profile? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 11:02 am Posted by dhborchardt (4 messages posted) I figured it out. I was copying it to Default instead of Default User. Thanks On Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9:55 am, geek9pm wrote: >What version of XP? Retrial? OEM? SP3? >Are you in a corporate environment where some defaults can not be changed? >Was your XP installed over a network? >Are you using security programs that block changes to user profiles? >So you use a network domain? Do you use a virtual machine on the network? >Did you recent have a spy ware or malware problem that was fixed? How? > >There may be network security issues that block some changes to user profiles. One >might be Active Desktop, some picture backgrounds require Active Desktop. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: default profiles Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 11:23 am Posted by geek9pm (913 messages posted) That's a good thing to know! Any who wants to edit the NTUSER should look over the KB articles on Microsoft.com. A search on "XP NTUSER " (without quotes) brings up a helpful list. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum