re-imaging needs.
We found that copying local admin or any other user profile over default
user profile is more harmful than helpful. It tends to break default
paths and settings for MS Office and other applications.
We use registry injection hack, instead. We modify the settings as we'd
like for a local administrator account, then export the registry keys
involved, inject it into the default user ntuser.dat registry database
after editing paths in notepad appropriately.
Takes a bit more effort but seemed to work fine for us. That way we only
modify exactly what we need instead of wiping out and replacing entire
default profile.
We run sysprep and ghost at the end and settings stay the way we want.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you'd like to get into the
details.
Thank you,
Dmitry Manakhov
Cary Academy
Director of Information Services
(919) 228-4663 (desk)
(919) 649-6910 (cell)
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Demetri Orlando
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:36 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: imaging WinXP default user profile settings
Dear Smart Friends,
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We have a great imaging system here that works well, but until now we
have never tried to tweak the default users profile, and I'd like to
start doing that. Our students & teachers are admins on their tablets
and have local profiles which get created the first time they log in, so
I want to adjust the default users profile for some settings I prefer.
We're running XP and imaging with a Kbox appliance. In my first attempt
it appears that sys-prep wiped out the default users settings that I had
changed. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? To create the profile
settings I am following the Microsoft directions from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974 and it works, but not after we
image it. I have also looked in the ISED archives (great post from Tom
in 2002!) and the wiki which has this info:
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/Using_Default_User_Account but
these don't tell me what I'm doing wrong.
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Thanks for any help you may be able to offer,
Demetri
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Demetri Orlando
Battle Ground Academy
Franklin, TN=20
615-567-9022
demetrio@battlegroundacademy.org
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