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Win7 user folder is now desktop folder
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HI Everyone.
I installed a SSD drive recently and thought I would move all my user folders (eg Desktop, My Document, My Music etc) off to another drive.
To do this I right clicked on the ...
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User profile size and boot performance
This question appeared between two computer technicians that are friends of mine.
One was saying that the user profile's size (mainly regarding desktop content) would affect boot time and even ...
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How do I make installed software available to all users of a computer?
I installed Embarcadero Delphi software on Windows Vista. Later I had to delete the profile of the user account with which I installed Delphi. I created a new profile for myself, but now I cannot use ...
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Winlogon delays start
I'm trying to determine, why my notebook running Windows 7 Prof x64 hangs for about 30 seconds on the welcome screen with no CPU or HDD usage (it's a member of a Windows domain). I analyzed the boot ...
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Users unable to logon to only one server in domain through RDP
Today one of my colleagues decided to try and free up some space by taking the entire users directory from our Windows Server 2008 R2 installation to another drive. This has caused the problem of ...
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How do I start Chrome using a specified “user profile”?
I use the new built-in "Users" feature of Chrome to switch between Home/Work accounts easily. However, Chrome remembers the "last" user profile you had selected when launching new windows. This is a ...
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Strange behaviour of Google Chrome when started for non-default profile
I have 3 profiles created in Google Chrome (added from Chrome's GUI, not manually). They work okay, if a new window is opened under different profile from GUI (using user icon in the upper left corner ...
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Desktop Infrastructure - My Windows 7 Loads the incorrect profile
I have Windows 7 Professional 64Bit installed, at start up when I enter my username and password it loads as per normal, but i could not see any of my programs installed or find any of my files, after ...
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Specific User/MAC-address QoS router
Not being a fan of WiFi passwords, I wish to have an open network; at least for Guests.
Unfortunately I haven't seen any ability within the current range of WiFi routers to enable QoS for specific ...
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The correct way to move /home to another partition on linux
I've moved /home to a separate partition, this involved creating and mounting the new partition, copying the old home directory over to the newly mounted one, editing fstab to mount the new partition ...
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how to check last add users in msn messenger?
How can I check the last users I've add to my msn messenger? I mean, you can enter someone else's profile and there you will find "XXX add YYY to messenger", but where can I check about MY msn?
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Repairing file associations for a user profile [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to repair a broken .EXE file association
A system that I'm working on got the Windows 7 Anti-Spyware 2012 virus. Before it was giving to me it had been running a ...
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How can I tell if somebody is logged in with Temp Profile?
I have a user that is logged on but i dont think that their profile has loaded properly. I click on the start menu and it shows the correct username, but im wondering is there a way (once im logged ...
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Windows 7 Domain users temporary profiles on netbooks
I have a bunch of users on a Windows 2008 Active Directory domain who are getting temporary profiles when logging on through netbook computers. When they log in to a desktop computer their profiles ...
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Prevent creation of Contacts folder in userprofile
How can I prevent windows 7 from creating the contacts folder in a new user profile. It's not in the default user profile.
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How do I migrate my son's Windows 7 profile to a new Windows 7 machine?
My son has a computer on our home network that he has all set up with his links, settings, etc.
His grandfather sent us a new computer.
How can I move his user profile from the older machine to the ...
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Possible to copy Windows 7 local user profile link with junction point to new Windows 7 machine?
I am using Windows 7 in my old machine. All my I user profiles store in another HDD and I use mklink/j to create a junction point to c:\users.
I bought a new machine with better performance and ...
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How to move the users profile entirely to another folder/partition?
Googling resulted in copying the users folder to my desired destination while being in safe mode, and then making a junction to there from the original users fodler.
Do you know another way? maybe ...
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Windows XP User Profile is corrupted, now files are missing
I booted my computer and it gave me an error saying my user profile was corrupted.
Once the computer booted all of my settings had been reset, all of them gone. The files were still there so I ...
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Virtual PC changing user
I have Windows Virtual PC running XP Mode.
On a current local user <Mark> I have put the PC on a domain <mydomain>.
Virtual PC works but I struggle to get the image I have working on the ...
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How can I reset a Windows 7 Guest account?
I managed to kill my computer's Guest acccount by deleting stuff from its %appdata% folder. I can't log in as Guest successfully.
How can I reset the whole profile to a clean state?
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How do I get Windows 7 to recognize a Junctioned User folder?
I'd like to junction or hard-link my C:\Users[me]\ folder to a folder on my D: drive for space reasons. This has worked for me in the past, but after a recent reformat/reinstall of Win7 x64, Windows ...
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Are junctions affected if the drive is formatted?
I was trying to relocate my user profiles, so that they are not affected by any problems occuring in the drive on which the operating system is stored. I've managed to move user profiles using ...
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How can I create a Windows 7 user profile without the user logging in?
I've created a new user in Windows 7.
I now want to FTP into the PC as that user but it fails because the user profile does not yet exist under c:\users\
If I log in as that user first, it creates ...
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InnoSetup - Install an application “just for me” so that other users cannot access the executable
I have set up the installer for my app to offer a choice between "all users" and "just for me". The app needs admin access to install.
If I install for all users a shortcut and start menu entry goes ...
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permanently move the c:\Users folder to another partition in windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving users folder on Windows Vista/Seven to another partition
I have a small fast install of windows 7 on an SSD drive. I would like to move the c:\Users folder to ...
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How do you move google apps data folder?
I'm running out of disk space on my C: drive and I found that google application are taking up a lot of space. Picasa, Chrome, Google Desktop etc.
Surely there's some nicer solution than hacking in ...
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Should I be concerned with deleting a user account
Somehow a user account got corrupted so following advice, I created a new user account. I now want to delete the old user account but I am a little nervous. A few main points:
Both the new and old ...
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In windows XP how to get back my profile?
I have a windows XP machine with split drives:
C:\ - just OS
D:\ - my data
I ran out of disk space and when logging into my profile, it popped with some error stating that since it didn't have any ...
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How can I figure out when an user has last logged out? The user folder?
In C:\Users, does the date last modified of the user's profile folder equate to the last day they logged out?
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Windows7 - User Profile Service service failed logon. User profile cannot be loaded
I remember I accidently deleted my user profile and since than, I am being shown User Profile Service service failed logon. User profile cannot be loaded. message whenever I try to login with my ...
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Google Chrome duplicate and open with multiple profile
I'm using Chrome 13.0.782.14 dev-m and have followed the instructions here, copied my Default folder to a test folder, then used the flag to point to that test folder.
I found that below items are ...
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Can I export/import a Windows Profile
I am about to move some users off a domain to using stand-alone account, and I'd like to keep all the users settings (eg thunderbird cache/saved passwords etc).
Is it possible to export the settings ...
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Moving a user profile to a different drive letter in Windows XP
Can someone please give me the right procedure to move a USERPROFILE from C drive to D drive in Windows XP? I found two questions on this forum and in one question the link is dead: How do you move ...
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How to delete user folders for old user in C:\Documents and Settings in Windows 2003
I have got an old laptop from a previous employee of my company. Because all the software I need is preconfigured on the laptop I am using the laptop as-is without un-installing or re-installing any ...
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Windows 7 Logged on with a temporary profile
I'm having a problem where after power faliure during a reboot Windows says there's a problem with the user profile and logs me in to a temporary one. This happens both with my personal account and ...
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Store XP Pro user profiles on a networked drive?
In linux, it's easy to store user folders on a networked drive - just mount it on /home - but I can't seem to find any resources for this in XP Pro. Note that I don't need to move the whole ...
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XP Pro 5.1: User accounts give “”Your current security settings put your computer at risk" warning--why? Fix?
I'm the admin. When I log into my recently set up user session (there are two) the Win Security Center pops up a bar that says "Your current security settings put your computer at risk, click here..." ...
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After recovery to restore point, Windows 7 missing pinned items and favorites
I believe a recent windows update was interrupted. The next day, I could not logon and was presented with the error "User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded".
I ...
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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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Windows XP login with broken profile
About on each third boot I get logged in with a strange profile. I log in as usually, but get some temporary profile, a mixture of my settings and default ones. Of course, it's completely unusable, my ...
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How do you change the %USERPROFILE% in Windows 7? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving users folder on Windows Vista/Seven to another partition
I found the spot in the registry that when you change it, it changes the %PROGRAMFILES% location, but I ...
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Can 'Switch User' in Windows 7 work with Active Directory?
In Windows 7 you can 'Switch User' to anyone who's been configured locally on the machine.
Can this be extended to allow someone to switch to a user defined in Active Directory (the same directory ...
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Reducing the size of your Windows profile
I've heard people say you should move documents from your Desktop to My Documents, in order to reduce the size of your Windows profile.
Aren't both the Desktop and My Documents part of your profile?
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Moving user directory after re-joining the domain with the least amount of pain on Windows 7
Unlike Windows XP, it's pretty easy to change a user's sub-directories in Windows 7 like Music and Documents. Go to their properties' location tab and move it elsewhere.
I am looking for similar ...
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How to copy user's profile from one terminal desktop to another?
we are using two terminal desktop servers of same versions at work. there is server A and B. Users tend to have only one fully customized user profile only at A or B. We want them to connect to load ...
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How do I recover my corrupt Windows profile?
Recently, I converted my profile was converted from local to roaming profile, via the active directory users and computers tool. This was an experiment in which I should have used a test account, but ...
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Google Chrome shows error messagebox every time it starts
I removed Google Chrome 10.x dev version, and installed 8.x stable version again.
After installing 8.x, chrome always shows this message box, every time it starts.
Your profile can not be used ...
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How can I remove 1 user name remember in IE
I am using IE 6 on Windows XP. IE remembers my 4 of my login names to my google account.
Is it possible for me to just remove 1 login name and password that remembered by IE and keep the rest in tact?
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Putting User Directory on Mapped Network Drive on Windows 7
I want to relocate my user directory "C:\Users\Edwin" to a mapped network drive E: (i.e. mapped from a network share \\192.168.22.9\share).
The difficult part is in relocating the user directory ...
