Re: Repost: New users file problem -- please help

Techdango <Techdango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 7 Dec
2005:

>I may be wrong, but I believe XP creates new users based off of the local
>administrator account.

Thanks for the reply. It's the Default User that's used as the
"template", though.

> If you make sure this profile is good, you can rename
>ntuser.dat, to ntuser.man to force the profile.

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by "force the profile". The
Default User does seem good, however -- all files have correct
attributes. I also tried copying it manually to the new user profile,
and creating a new Default User profile from my Administrator account.
No change, same problem.

>You can also check the msconfig to see if notepad is setup to auto
>start.

Ryan, it isn't Notepad, it's the desktop.ini file in the user's Startup
folder. By losing its attributes it causes Notepad to "run" it. But
that's easily fixed, and isn't the problem, just a symptom. Seems you
didn't read much at all of my "too long" post :-(
>
>If you are using a domain,

I'm not, it's a workgroup/standalone computer. For the benefit of anyone
else who may be reading, I have also run SFC and a repair install of XP.
Still no luck.

--
Nightowl
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