Using a master NTUSER file

[Guest Blackberry]

Hi All

 

I work in a number of schools and I have to set up (too) many PCs in the

same standard form. Because 99% of these are Win2K3 clients we are talking

numerous user profiles as well, so I currently log on as one user, set the

Desktop, Screensaveer, etc stuff up and then copy the NTUSER file from this

account to the default user so that every user profile that logs on has this

style. This seems to work fine, but I would now like to take this a step

further and keep of a copy of this NTUSER file so that on a new machine I

simply drop this into the default user folder straight away.

 

My question is, am I allowed to do this from one machine to another or will

it screw it up? Although 99% of our machines are XP Pro SP2, if I dropped

my master NTUSER file into a Win XP Home or Win XP Pro SP1 PC would it screw

things up?

 

Thanks

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Using a master NTUSER file

 

Interesting post: It is both cross-posted (which is fine) and

multi-posted (which causes duplication of effort). Why? You

appear to be fully aware of the two posting methods!

[Guest Al Dunbar]

Re: Using a master NTUSER file

 

 

"Blackberry" <info@NoSpamIt.com> wrote in message

news:%237uPHUQ$HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Hi All

>

> I work in a number of schools and I have to set up (too) many PCs in the

> same standard form. Because 99% of these are Win2K3 clients we are

> talking

> numerous user profiles as well, so I currently log on as one user, set the

> Desktop, Screensaveer, etc stuff up and then copy the NTUSER file from

> this

> account to the default user so that every user profile that logs on has

> this

> style. This seems to work fine, but I would now like to take this a step

> further and keep of a copy of this NTUSER file so that on a new machine I

> simply drop this into the default user folder straight away.

>

> My question is, am I allowed to do this from one machine to another or

> will

> it screw it up? Although 99% of our machines are XP Pro SP2, if I dropped

> my master NTUSER file into a Win XP Home or Win XP Pro SP1 PC would it

> screw

> things up?

 

If 99% are w2k and 99% are xp, what are the other -98%? ;-)

 

I'd advise against trying to use an NTUSER file in any other o/s-sp

combination than the one it was created on. Whether it would work on

identical machines, well, you could just try it yourself.

 

/Al