Posted August 4, 200816 yr In XP, we changed the registry so that we had an admin account profile pointing at the Default User profile. So that when we looked in with this account anything we changed was done in the Default User profile. So that when users log in, they get a standard profile that was created using the edited Default User profile. This is what we did in XP: Edit the registry so that the temp account's profile path points to the Default User's profile path. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\] Default User's profile path is usually C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\ When I did the same thing for Vista using Users instead of Docs and settings and Default instead of Default User, I can log in and get the Default profile, but I can not do anything. Everything is greyed out, not able to add new folders to desktop. Noticed that all the default folders are read only and not able to make them no-read only, even logging in as the Admin account. What do I need to do to fix this problem?
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