In the past, I have kept my profiles on the server and have had my client machines (98) set up to user a different profile for each user. I recently decided that I didn't need to store profiles on the server any more and want to go back to using the same (local) profile for all users of the machine. Problem is, I want to take the settings from my user profile in <WINDIR>/profiles/<USER>/ and make them default so that when I switch to single user in control panel, I still have my users settings.
I have tried a few things to solve this problem, but the only one that worked was to copy my HKEY_USERS/<USER> tree to HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT (registry) and the switch the ControlPanel->Passwords->User Profiles to the 'all users of this computer...' setting. Seems that if you backup from keeping per-user settings to single user, the default setting are what is used which, for me, loses LOTS of installation. This solution worked, but the profile root is still <WINDIR>/profiles/<USER> rather than using the windows root dir for favorites, etc. Any ideas on how to revert and keep a users settings? I basically want to take a user's settings and merge them with the .DEFAULT user settings, that's all.
I have tried a few things to solve this problem, but the only one that worked was to copy my HKEY_USERS/<USER> tree to HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT (registry) and the switch the ControlPanel->Passwords->User Profiles to the 'all users of this computer...' setting. Seems that if you backup from keeping per-user settings to single user, the default setting are what is used which, for me, loses LOTS of installation. This solution worked, but the profile root is still <WINDIR>/profiles/<USER> rather than using the windows root dir for favorites, etc. Any ideas on how to revert and keep a users settings? I basically want to take a user's settings and merge them with the .DEFAULT user settings, that's all.