Re: New user preferences and settings

Thanks for the help, John.

Maybe I'm being a bit dense here, but when I get to the Copy To stage, I'm
not sure what to do. Do I simply browse to the new user's folder within
Documents and Settings?

Can I copy to the All Users folder, or is this a bad idea? (I suspect that
this may cause problems even though I don't fully understand what's going
on)

What I want to do is set it so that when I add a new user, the account has
all the settings and preferences I've changed under the default
Administrator account, except I'd prefer the new account to be a member of
the Users group only. Individual users could then be made members of other
groups as and when required.

Is this possible or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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Jonathan Finney


"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sysdm_userprofile_copy.mspx?mfr=true

Tip: Create a new user with Administrative privileges then logon to that
new user account to copy the profile from the existing Administrator to
the other user accounts. Otherwise you may be prevented from copying the
profile from the active account to which you might be logged on to a new
account.

John

Jonathan Finney wrote:

I've just finished building a new PC and got everything looking the way I
want it, but when I add a new user account, it gets created with default
settings/appearance, etc.

How can I copy these so that all new users appear like the original
administrator account?

I don't want new users to have administrator privileges, so I'd like to
use this as a start point, then apply the restrictions before saving
these as 'new account' defaults.

I'm sure this must be a well-documented procedure, but I don't know where
to find it.




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