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

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Techdango <Techdango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 9 Dec
2005:

>No need to get upset with people who are trying to help you.

I'm not upset, just wryly amused. I took your point about my post being
rather long; however, that information about desktop.ini and Notepad was
in the second paragraph.

>If "The Default User does seem good, however -- all files have correct
>attributes. " then what is your problem?

I am obviously not making myself clear. In the Default User profile
itself all files have correct attributes -- those that should be Hidden
and System are. However, when a new user is created (from this profile),
these attributes are not being copied. That is my problem.

>If desktop.ini is starting up in Notepad everytime a user logs in, then the
>attributes are clearly not correct. Which would lead to an issue with your
>default profile.

That is what I originally thought. But see below.

>Does this happen when you log in as administrator? If not, then try using
>the Copy To command to copy the administrator profile to another profile
>having this issue. If the users account then works, you know you have a
>problem with your default profile.

All my existing accounts are fine. As I have explained, I have tried
manually copying a profile to an incorrect one; it doesn't work because
Windows doesn't recognise a file with S and H attributes as being any
different from one without, so they are not added when the file is
overwritten. Try it for yourself.

I also tried making a new custom Default profile from my Administrator
account. Again, the Admin account's files are all correct; new users
made from it are not.

I don't believe now that it is actually the Default User profile that is
at fault. I think it must be some obscure problem with the
copying/creating mechanism, maybe one of those .dll problems Ramesh and
David are so good with :-)

Thanks for your efforts at helping me, though.

--
Nightowl
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