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JonathanL
I recently migrated some XP SP3 PCs from a workgroup to a 2003 domain. After
logging in to each PC with the newly created domain user account, then
rebooting, I logged in as me (domain admin) and copied the user's old local
profile over the new domain profile on each PC.
Upon logging in as the user after copying the profile, I found that some of
them had messed up desktops. This consisted of the wallpaper not showing
(blank background was all there was), the theme looking like Windows 2000
with the theme not being changeable.
These users did not have local admin rights on the PCs before migrating nor
after. So I gave the local admin rights and lo and behold, now everything
loads up and looks right. Their wallpaper displays and the theme is the
standard XP blue theme.
This only happened with a few of them. I don't want them to have local admin
rights but if I remove that, then I don't know what all else will be messed
up for the users besides how their desktop looks.
Why would this happen and what can I do to fix it so I can put them back to
non-admin users? I've re-applied the security on the profiles so it's not
that they don't have access to the entire profile. This only happened with a
few users. The others acted normally without admin access.
logging in to each PC with the newly created domain user account, then
rebooting, I logged in as me (domain admin) and copied the user's old local
profile over the new domain profile on each PC.
Upon logging in as the user after copying the profile, I found that some of
them had messed up desktops. This consisted of the wallpaper not showing
(blank background was all there was), the theme looking like Windows 2000
with the theme not being changeable.
These users did not have local admin rights on the PCs before migrating nor
after. So I gave the local admin rights and lo and behold, now everything
loads up and looks right. Their wallpaper displays and the theme is the
standard XP blue theme.
This only happened with a few of them. I don't want them to have local admin
rights but if I remove that, then I don't know what all else will be messed
up for the users besides how their desktop looks.
Why would this happen and what can I do to fix it so I can put them back to
non-admin users? I've re-applied the security on the profiles so it's not
that they don't have access to the entire profile. This only happened with a
few users. The others acted normally without admin access.