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| Guest | Mandatory Profiles - Local In Windows XP I could setup a local account on the system to be a mandatory account, so that when it logs off any changes made to it are "lost". It was very easy in XP: 1. Create a folder on the local drive, C:\LocalUser\Profile. 2. Create a LocalUser account and point the profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile. 3. Log on with the LocalUser, then set any settings you want. 4. Log off the LocalUser account. 5. Rename the C:\LocalUser\Profile\ntuser.dat and ntuser.dat.log to ntuser.man and ntuser.man.log 6. Rename the C:\LocalUser\Profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile.man 7. Go back into User manager and set the LocalUser profile path to C:\LocalUser\Profile.man That was all it took. In Windows Vista none of that works. 1. Vista seems to ignore whatever you put in for the User's Profile Path value. So even if I set it to C:\LocalUser\Profile, Vista keeps the profile in C:\Users\LocalUser. 2. I have to use the Move Profile part of the User Manager in Vista to move the profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile. 3. Renaming the profile folder, and ntuser files to .man version Vista ignores that, I believe partly because it ignores what you have for the profile path in the account to begin with. I've followed the instructions in the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc766489.aspx for setting up a mandatory profile, but those steps do not work, or at least they do not work for local accounts. Any help on this would be appreciated. |
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