It use to be that you could easily go into the profiles manager and copy any unlocked profile you wanted over the "Default User" profile. It seems that Microsoft has disabled this in Windows 7, the "Copy To" option is grayed out, and they expect you to use sysprep by putting:.
But this also resets a lot of other stuff, and that sucks when you are making a Ghost image for a lab environment. Below is the work around you can use to modify the Default profile by copying any profile you have previously modified over the Default profile. The Steps: After setting up the profile for one user, lets call the account "adrian", do the following: 0.
Well I wasn't trying to give the definitive answer to my own question : I just did a bit more research after posting the question and thought I'd at least add what I'd found.
Ideally I'd like to know how to copy the profile the same way as before for Windows XP etc. Regards Mark. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.
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All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. Today I set up a Windows 7 Professional laptop on a customers network. When I got to the stage of the process where I copy a preconfigured profile to the default user profile the option was greyed out. Having done a quick bit of research via Google it would seem that it is quite a common issue - but not one for which there seemed to be an answer.
Does anyone know if you can still copy profiles to the default user profile in Windows 7? Share Flag. Some settings can be configured only by using the CopyProfile unattend setting, and other settings can be configured by using Group Policy.
To do this, use either of the following methods:. Use Group Policy to configure settings that are reset by the new user signin process. You can also create scripts to define these user settings. Use the CopyProfile unattend setting.
For more information, see Unattended Windows Setup Reference. Sysprep System Preparation Overview. Sysprep Process Overview. Sysprep Command-Line Options. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note Using CopyProfile to customize the Start menu isn't supported. Instead, you can use the following methods to manage custom Start layouts Windows See Customize the Windows 11 Start layout.
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And also make sure you have logged out in order to take effect. Duncan, thanks. And I believe that Windows 8 will make the change to reflect the trend. I have done the steps explained above. All works ok apart from various little problems that I have notice every now and then.
For example, if I go to Devices and Printers, the page stays blank and seems to continue to load forever. My programs also have a tendancy to become more unstable and crash more often. Amazing… it did work.. Yes, that WILL work. I have tested it. I then discovered this tutorial, but didn't really want to go through customizing everything all over again. I then enabled the Administrator account and logged into it. Yes, that ended up creating the Admin profile in the Windows 7 partition, but I didn't care.
I previously backed up the entire drive to an external drive just in case I hosed everything. From the Administrator account, I added a user trying to recreate my profile. However, I could not successfully log into the new user. User profile cannot be loaded.
Let's simplify the hell out of this. I went back to the Admin account and deleted the new user account I created earlier, including files. Not that there were any files yet, as the profile folder for the new user had never even been created in either the old or new location. Makes sense being that it never could log on. I left the ProfileDirectory key changed to point to the other partition.
Added the new user account. Logged out of Admin and into the new user account. All good. I was worried that it would try to restore everything back to their exact original locations that would be bad which included some things on the C: drive AppData and whatnot and the rest to the D: drive Desktop, Downloads, My Documents, etc… It did not.
It took into account that everything from the old profile should now be placed in the new profile location. Custom settings transferred too. I think the only thing I had to fix was what default programs I wanted certain file types to open with.
No big deal. However, Migration Wizard allows you to restore to a different profile name if you want. I think it was under some advanced button or something during the restore. Hmm, this ended up being much longer than I intended. Anyway, hope all that answer the question and helps someone.
Thanks for laying this out step-by-step. I have two questions for you:. First, did you have any problems with applications that reference the original path for user profile? Second, I stumbled upon what appears to be a Windows 7 option for this exact operation, but was curious whether anyone else had tried this and if so with what results. Done it a while back for someone on Vista to leave him with an image so he could restore his PC to the state I handed it to him and his data would be kept on a different partition.
Followed the instructions as shown by you, just that when i copied the folders from C: to D: I ran the Explorer as Admin. Now I'm asking myself how I could delete that C:Users folder, after I have created a new Admin account with which I intend to work and having deleted that, let me call it admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation as I see no need for it any more?
When I try to do so, I'm getting an error message regarding the libraries, those meta-folders. When i double click the admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation user folder it's empty, still showing a lock on it though. It tried to become the owner with the according right to do so, not sure what I did there and if it worked but still can't delete it — still that library error message — won't let me remove the whole folder. I don't think copying profiles from one drive to another would move everything over ideally.
It may still leave things behind in the original folder. I would suggest leaving these folders as they are. Hope they don't bother you too much. At least, they haven't bothered me. Great tips here guys! I could also use some help. What I want to do is just have the essential Windows files on the SSD and keep everything else the same. I think you understand what I am asking here?
I dont think ur instructions are very clear after all, am I supposed to create a new folder in the new directory called User, and then copy the Default folder and Public Folders to it?
I have one concern, can I have the profiles in D drive where D is protected by bitlock encryption? When I use this method, I get an error when I set up a new user and then try to log into that new user. It says that it cannot access the new user's profile location, that it might be on another network etc. I look in the users directory and there is no folder created for the new user.
I even tried resetting the permissions on the new users folder 'e:users' to match those for the c:users folder and subfolders , but this didn't help either. Any thoughts? Wanted to do this just to have my user profile and more importantly the appdata directory on my mechanical 1.
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