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Questions tagged [user-profile]

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How to create a user without a profile on Windows 7

Can anyone tell me how to create a local user without a profile on Windows 7? I have a cron job I want to run, but I do not want this user to to show up on the list of local logins on the startup screen.
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Restoring profile to deleted user

We have an issue where a user's account was deleted and then another account was created with the same username. On Windows XP, the profile for this user was created in the folder "user.DOMAIN" whereas the original user's profile is at "user." How…
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Recover encrypted file

I am running SBS Server 2011. I encrypted a text file file1 and placed it under the documents folder in the user profile of user1. Now I accidentally removed user1's account when I was adding/removing email accounts in the Exchange Management…
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Waiting on User Profile Service - Forever

I have two AD servers separated by a T1. Location A, which hosts the primary AD / DNS / Roaming Profiles server is subnet 192.168.0 Location B, which is the secondary AD server (I'm trying to configure but...) is on subnet 192.168.1 I understand…
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Windows 7 Group Policy to delete old user profiles does not work

Background information: I currently manage a series of computer labs (127 machines running Windows 7 x64 Enterprise) for the engineering school of a university. These machines are used constantly by ~2000 undergraduate students. We use Symantec…
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Custom handling of domain user profile creation

I want to hook into the domain user login system and handle my own local profile creation. I have two basic related questions: How do I intercept the domain user authentication? Can I handle the creation of user profiles myself? Using roaming…
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How do I change HOMEDRIVE HOMEPATH and HOMESHARE in Windows XP?

I have got a laptop which is configured to have the user profile in a network drive. This is causing me a lot of headaches since the connectivity to my company is very slow. I want to relocate the profile of my user into a local directory. How do I…
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Can't delete profile

I have a client machine (XP SP3) which used to be connected to a windows 2003 domain, but the server has since gone down due to a hard drive failure, however the profiles still remain in 'documents and settings'. I have a local admin account on the…
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How to join Domain and convert local user profile in the new AD user profile?

Situation: In a very small environment i have no ad server, only a share on an windows7 client which is used like a fileserver. Now i want to do thinks a bit more proffessional and bought a little HPE Server with Vmware Hypervisor (free) and an…
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Hiding the Windows 10 "You have been signed in with a temporary profile"

Unlike most people on the internet searching something related to this, I do not want to fix this message. In this test environment domain users are meant to have a temporary profile. I am tying to hide the message in the status bar and the, "Your…
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RemoteApp : Save files on client's local profile

I have a RemoteApp collection with all office programs (Word, Excel, ...) on my Windows Server 2016 with RDS installed. When I launtch a program (like Word) on my client Windows 10 and then I want to save, it saves by default on my Administrator's…
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Deleting $RECYCLE.BIN from userprofile via logoff script

I've got a RDS solution which utilizes User Profile Disks. There is a bug with UPD's which means that every now and then permissions on the users individual Recycle Bin's get mixed up and the user is then unable to delete items (they can still shift…
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How to create a group policy to NOT create a local user profile?

I am targetting to make certain domain joined PCs into thin clients by customer order, I want these PCs to not store local profiles for users that would log in to them. Instead, they would use the default user profile, will not be able to save a…
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migrate local profiles to UPD

We have a farm of RDSH servers, that are currently using local profiles. I would like to migrate them to UPD, ( User profile disks). Not too sure on how to copy data from local profile of some 40 users to upd vhdx files before hand. As the UPD(s)…
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Samba 'homes' share and users randomly deciding to put capital letters in their usernames

I created a 'homes' share in Samba, tested, and then moved all our user profiles over to it. [homes] comment = User Profiles path = /tank/users/%U valid users = %U browseable = no writable = yes hide dot files = yes During…
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