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How to preserve sysprep from changing Default User settings

I'm having diffculties configuring 20 new Dell Vostro minis here. I set up one of them with my preferred OS, applications and settings, especially the Visual Effects Settings of Windows XP. I set them to best performance and deactivated everything…
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Windows Server 2019 Prevents Freshly Compiled DLL to be Saved Within User's Documents

An application which reads C# source code and compiles it to a DLL is throwing and error when trying to save this DLL to disk within the user's Documents folder, e.g "c:\Users\\Documents\myapplication\some-folder\new.DLL", the application…
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Hanging on “Please wait for the User Profile Service” while shutting down, NOT logging in

When we shut down our DC and the servers on the domain, it hangs on the “Please wait for the User Profile Service” screen for a very long time. Not logging IN, but shutting down. Trying to google the solution only takes me to the error that occurs…
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windows 10 local logon scripts issues

I am trying to work out how to best use Windows 10 logon scripts on a computer that is NOT domain joined: I know that I can apply a .bat file for 'all users' in this location: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp and I can…
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Windows 7: How to change location of a profile's folders?

Am trying to get Widows 7 to behave when told to change a user's "Desktop", "Saved Searches", "Desktop", "My Music", and the rest of the folders that "point" to their different directories and that can be found on their profile. This is an Spanish…
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Windows roaming profiles on Snow Leopard Server

We've got an Xserve with Snow Leopard Server running our domain, with mostly Mac clients configured with "roaming" Home Sync directories. There are several Windows workstations that also use roaming profiles that sync to the Mac server, but they…
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Script to delete many old user profiles from file server?

I have a network share on a Windows Server 2012 machine that is used to store all the user profile files (My Documents, Desktop, etc). There are hundreds of old users I need to get rid of and I am going through them all one by one... first making…
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How to create a profile template in 2012 R2

We are going through a phase of trying to minimise unnecessary IT admin work and we're goign to create AD template profiles for departmental roles, not sure how you go about doing this though, is it a case of just making a regular user and then just…
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How can I exclude %TEMP% and %TMP% directories from user profile disk in Remote Desktop Services

We are trying to deploy extensions for Chrome using GPOs. Due to Chrome not supporting junction points, we cannot do this when using user profile disks as they have no drive letter when dereferencing a path within the disk. We are trying to get…
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Windows 7 - remove user's profile after logout

is it possible to force Windows 7 to remove user's profile after logout? Computer is being used by many students in library. It won't be in domain.
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AD programs per roaming profile

Is it possible to make programs roaming with each user profile? I wish to make it so that each user with a roaming profile has their own programs that load with their profile? Also, is it possible to ignore all programs on the computer itself when…
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Deleting user profiles using Delprof2 and Windows Task Manager

I'm having problems with using Windows Task Manager and Delprof2 utility to delete user profiles. I setup a task in Windows Task Manager to execute Delprof2.exe with /q parameter at each system start (reboot) to delete all profiles. This setup works…
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Should a user profile be generated prior to use it as IIS Application Pool identity?

When using a custom profile as identity for an IIS (7.5, 8.0) Application Pool - is one supposed to login with this account on the related server in order to create a user profile beforehand?
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temporary user profile on windows

everytime I log into the computer I am getting Message you are logged in With a temporary user profile. How can I fix this problem? I set up pc With New Windows 7 still i am getting the Message. I am not logged in as my user, but as TEMP-user each…
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Prevent Temp user creation in windows

Windows creating temp profile every time when I login to the PC. The pc has more than one user. I am facing this problem in many Windows 10 and Server 2012 PC's. The temp profile creation is not found in every user. But, in most of the cases it is…
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