Help needed creating correct 'User Profile'

From: Marty (johntyboy@hotmail.com)
Date: 06/23/02

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    From: "Marty" <johntyboy@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:12:16 +1200

    Help please,
    Not sure if this is the right group, but I'm sure someone will be quick to
    point out if it's not and hopefuly direct me to the correct one:-) apoligies
    to all if I did get it wrong.
    Having problems creating a 'default User' on a LAN with a NT OS.
    I set up a profile under a "Joe Bloggs" login user and got all the settings
    etc the way I wanted (i.e. desktop, ms Office short cut bar, MS Word
    templates, email & intranet settings etc etc), then logged off and re-loged
    on as a user with admin rights and renamed the profile that I had set up to
    "default user". Now NT picks up any profile - but 'default user' as the
    default user when a new user logs on for the first time..
    I logged on as administrator and deleted all profiles leaving only the
    'administrator, default user & all users' profiles and still no joy, this
    time NT picked up the 'administrator's profile as the default user .....
    definitely not what I want. Sometimes I couldn't even delete certain
    profiles as NT had 'adopted' it as the default user, and as it was in use, I
    couldn't do anything with it ... ie copy, cut, delete, rename etc.
    Where am I going wrong???, any help would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks
    Dave Martin

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