creating default user profile

[Andrew Morgan]

Hi all

Just wanting to check something ....

I'm developing our new XP SP2 standard build.

Naturally, I'll be creating a default user profile.

I'm doing this by making the necessary changes and overwriting the 'default
user' folder as per standard practice. Also, I'm loading the NTUSER.DAT
hive and tweaking stuff in there too.

Am I right in assuming that this is in no way related to the
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT registry key, which I understand to be the local system
profile, located in system32\config\systemprofile ? I don't need to make
any changes to .DEFAULT at all do I (unless I want to alter the logon screen
colours etc).

Am I correct in saying that all new users get the 'default user' profile and
have nothing to do with the .DEFAULT reg key?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Andrew,
have nothing to do with the .DEFAULT reg key?

Yes, you're correct. The .Default setting applies to the logon Desktop (when
no user is logged in)