Questions tagged [roaming-profiles]
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Very slow login to windows 10 in a shared computer lab
In a college we have multiple computer labs for students' use. Students use different computers every time they go the lab. The log in process is very slow (up to 10 min).
We suspect it has to do with ...
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Set wallpaper to black and hide hidden files on remote desktop login
My workplace recently introduced some changes to how our Windows 10 remote sessions work.
Every time I log into a new RDP session, the wallpaper is set to a ghastly grey background with a raster ...
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How to install an application on a windows server, available to any user in domain on any computer in domain? [closed]
I have 5 workstations joint to a domain. The DC is running a Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition and an Active Directory Domain Controller, and a DNS is configured.
I have 20 different users with ...
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InCopy CS5 settings linger mysteriously somewhere
At work our team is stuck with an archaic version of InCopy (CS5 / 7.0.5) that won't be upgraded.
We have to "hotdesk". For a long time the PCs all had just local windows accounts with a common ...
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Roaming Profiles - How it works?
So a roaming profile = needs to be a domain user account who can login to other workstations? If so, does it means all domain users = roaming profiles?
So when a roaming user logs in to another ...
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Issue with my roaming profile powershell producing - Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the 'FileSystem' provider failed
This is really annoying error - Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the 'FileSystem' provider failed., which I get every time I start powershell when outside company's ...
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Why do I have a Roaming Profile? (Windows 7 & 10 HOME Editions)
I'm a little confused why it's looks like roaming profiles are enabled, but they are not.
Profile Status in 'User Profiles' and WMIC say "Local", yet there's a Roaming folder (aka %appdata%) ...
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Prevent domain user making changes on desktop
I have a problem with desktop icons for domain users. I have about 150 domain PC's with the same config (programs, icons, same hardware, OS - win 10, etc). The problem is that users are saving some ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu - Roaming Profiles
We have Windows 10 1703 Education edition and have been battling with the start menu (as well as many other bugs) for a while now.
What have I done?
GPO's
Set Mandatory start menu xml
Set ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu Layout XML - Redirected start menus
We use redirected start menus and mandatory roaming profiles for specific users and I have been having a nightmare setting up a mandatory start menu. The users are restricted access to the %...
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Terminal profile keeps losing mapped drive
I have two users that keep losing their mapped drives on their Windows 2012 profiles. We have two terminal servers and they seem to lose it when they log into a specific one. Still trying to figure ...
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Is it possible to block the profile tab configuration on a windows 2008R2 domain?
We have a windows 2008R2 domain where the users profiles are configured through the profile tab under the users properties in Active directory Users and computers.
In this scenario when a user logs ...
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How to check, from cmd, if a profile status is local or temp or roaming or backup?
How to check, from cmd, if a profile status is local or temp or roaming or backup ?
I there a way we can check the TYPE and STATUS of the profiles in the computer from the command line.
Normally we ...
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Error 0x80070003 when attempting to sign into Microsoft Account with Groove Music and other apps
I have the Windows 10 Anniversary update running on a domain managed machine (Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller) which uses Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles. When logged in and connected ...
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Does Windows backup roaming files?
Is there hope the get an old version of a file back which is stored in the C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\... folder? I'm using Windows 10. Is this folder backed up when Windows creates a restore point?...
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How can I keep user account settings across multiple computers?
I work with a team of around 15 people, all on different shifts. There are 5 different computers running Windows 10 where we work, and we use different machines from shift to shift, depending on which ...
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Windows 7 logon failure- User ID and password appears to expire over weekend
In September, a user was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. We are in a corporate setting, so, we are on a network. This user previously had NO issues logging onto her laptop or the network. ...
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How do I pin MS Office programs to the Task Bar on Windows 7 for profiles which roam between 32- and 64-bit machines?
I have roaming user profiles enabled on a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain with mainly Windows 7 Professional clients.
I've got a first-time login script which clears all Start Menu and Task Bar items, ...
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Win creates TEMP profile after I delete local roaming profile data (Win7)
At my newly aquired work as a IT guy I've run into an issue with deleting local user profile data on roaming profiles.
Whenever I delete a profile on a local machine (I do it the proper way through "...
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Roaming profile - does it download older files from server?
Long story, but I took a Samba server with roaming profiles out of the network and fsck is finding a bunch of errors in files that are synced with roaming profiles. The two users of the system are ...
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Local & LocalLow folders getting copied into roaming profile on Windows 10
Existing Windows 7/8.1 environment with Windows 2012 domain controller. Domain accounts configured to use roaming profiles. Works fine on existing clients copying just the "Roaming" sub-folder under ...
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Same preferences for all users in Acrobat Reader?
On a W2k8R2 server we have an installation of Acrobat Reader 11. It's necessary to set specific preferences (in Reader prefs) for trusted paths and signing documents.
Different users do connect to ...
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Unable to uninstall dropbox in a roaming profile or to delete data from an existing dropbox
For several years i had a running dropbox installation pointing to a home directory on a network drive associated with my roaming profile in a windows 2012 environment.
Some days ago, i realized that ...
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Move C:\Users\tachikoma01\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin to an other hardrive
I have a 120gb ssd and it's full. I want to use bitcoin armory which is going to take up to 50gb. And even if the software is installed on my G: hard drive, the software is still downloading datas to ...
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Windows Domain batchscript for netuse network shares
I am using a batchscrip to run at logon on my server 2012 essentials Domain Controller...
The script breaks down into 3 sections
Connects to 2 folders in local PC share
Connects to remote ip (wan ip)...
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A particular app (Visual Studio 2013) has lost write access to particular directories
I'm a software developer working in a large corporate environment that uses roaming profiles accross the network so my profile directory is stored on a network location: \\nas\home$\username and ...
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Local Profile To Domain Roaming Profile Desktop background black
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I've setup a Domain at my house and I want my local profiles to be a Roaming Domain Profile. This is what I did so you guys know all my steps:
Let's use the local Profile Pikachu and the ...
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Active Directory setup with Profile Path and Home Folder
I have roaming profiles turned on. I was wondering what the different was between Profile Path and Home Folder in the Active Directory setup.
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How do I return an application from the notification area to the taskbar
One of our users has the problem that whenever she minimizes a specific application, it gets minimized to the notification area instead of to the taskbar. The application does not appear in the ...
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You've been signed in with a temporary profile windows 8.1
We've got roaming profiles from a Windows Server 2012 AD controller, and several windows 7 machines which log in and out fine.
We have one problem machine, a Windows 8.1 laptop which constantly ...
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Roaming Profile Favorites
Is there a way to have your favorites roam from machine to machine with web browsers like Firefox and Chrome for example? Now, I assume you can edit the application so it saves the favorites to a ...
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Cleaning out AD Roaming Profile Cache
I've been playing around with AD RPs after watching some videos and they mentioned that you end up with a lot of disk space being filled due to cache and files being copied over from the server where ...
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How to make Lenovo Thinkpad switch for AP with best reception?
I recently changed the my network so that the 4 devices (1 router, 3AP's) is running on one SSID and different channels (instead of 4 different SSID's on same channel). I had some problems with ...
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Roaming profile location not updating
We have roaming profiles enabled for some users. We want to move some of them over to a new network share.
We have copied the files to the location (using Windows backup so that permissions are ...
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Forcing Windows roaming profile sync
In my company the user profile and directory are roaming profiles and are getting synced at startup/shutdown. This doesn't always work correctly and sometimes changes get lost. It happens when there ...
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Roaming profiles using vault credentials (instead of user credentials)
I have a share on the server where roaming profiles are stored. Some clients use their vault accounts (through Credential manager) to access the server resources because their local accounts do not ...
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Thunderbird remote profile is huge
A long time ago (with Thunderbird 2 or 3) I knew a solution how to permanently delete old messages which are stored in the folder appdata/roaming/profile/xxxxx/mail
Unfortunately I can't remember how ...
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Exclude a folder from roaming profiles
How can I exclude a folder from roaming profiles on a Windows 7 client machine?
Microsoft has two articles on how to exclude it using group policy on the domain controller (For Windows 2000 and ...
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Logging off doesn't reflect deleted files to server
When a user deletes a file in their profile, should the deleted files also be deleted on the server where their roaming profile is stored?
My users are seeing the files they deleted re-created in ...
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Mac roaming profile on a Windows 2008 domain
Have been pointed here by the guys at ServerFault - hoping this is the right forum (it seems to fit in with the guidelines).
I'm setting up a home network with Windows 2008 R2 server. I've configured ...
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How can I prevent Firefox from storing a 10 MB places database file in my Windows roaming profile?
On my work PC, Firefox stores a 10 MB file called places.sqlite in my roaming profile:
C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\PROFILE_ID\places.sqlite
I don't use any location-...
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AD Domain with roaming laptops - connect or leave separate
What do you do when you have a pool of laptops that are given to staff when they travel? I work for a travel agency where we will send a staff member or two away on a tour with a group of people, and ...
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How to not store Thunderbirds emails in the roaming profile for a domain user?
I'm on Windows 7 Pro x64 in the company domain with enabled roaming profiles.
My Thunderbird mailbox is roughly 8GB in size and synced to our Windows server on every logout, because Thunderbird puts ...
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How can I reset my own roaming profile on Windows 7 Professional?
My University uses Windows 7 professional roaming profiles with a domain. I'm not entirely sure how it works, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Is there a way I can reset my profile to its ...
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How can I simultaneously run two instances of Firefox on different computers using the same profile?
I have a roaming profile set up for myself on my network (via Group Policy based redirection of My Docs and Desktop). Sometimes, I need to access a remote computer via RDC with the same credentials I ...
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How does the Roaming folder work?
Am I understanding the Roaming folder correctly (C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming)? When I log out from the domain on my PC, it copies everything into the "domain cloud" so to speak. Then when I log ...
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Can I make a roaming profile on a network as a local computer admin?
I am currently in a position where I have an account on a Windows network. I was trying to make another account like this, which currently has local administrative privileges. I was trying to make a ...
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What installation options do I provide (everyone/just me, local settings, shared settings, etc)
This is something I've wrestled with off and on for ages. I have several apps with Inno Setup installers. By default, they install for all users, but the program settings (in an INI file) stored in ...
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How do I disable roaming profiles on WinXP?
As title: is there a way to disable roaming profiles in WinXP by using registry keys?
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Move Firefox user settings to another folder on same machine
Due to company restrictions where I currently work, My windows users folder %USERPROFILE% is space restricted.
I get a warning that I must delete files before I can log off.
Because of that, I have ...