Putting registry entries in the default user profile

[Gaoler]

Hi all. I have need to set up a default user profile on a Windows XP
and I'm wondering how I can get a .reg file or certain registry entries
in it? I did find this MS article on the default profiles, but I don't
see anything specifically about registry entries. Thanks.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You would run REGEDIT from the "temporary" profile that you created, or import the requisite REG files, as appropriate. Once the changes were made, you would use the same method to copy the temporary user's NTUSER.DAT to the Default User profile.

 

[Larry Gardner]

You can also create a new user, login as new user, modify what you want
initially.
Then login as an Admin user, open regedit and load the new user's ntuser.dat
as a hive.
then make any modifications you want.

What I have done, is created different .reg files based on
HKEY_USERS\LimitedUser.
Everytime I load another user's hive into the registry, I load it as
LimitedUser, and then merge the associated .reg files I want.
The I unload the hive.

You would run REGEDIT from the "temporary" profile that you created, or
import the requisite REG files, as appropriate. Once the changes were made,
you would use the same method to copy the temporary user's NTUSER.DAT to the
Default User profile.