Re: Whats "All Users" and "Default User" ?

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 05/21/05

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    It shouldn't have ever been possible to use 'Copy To' function while logged
    on as the source profile. The file ntuser.dat is the current user hive and
    would always be loaded and in use. 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"David H. Lipman" wrote:
| Thanx for that clarification Pegasus.  In the my mind I new that but I 
should have added
| that info.
|
| I found it interesting that in Win2K if logged in as 'lipman' I could copy 
the 'lipman'
| profile to the "Default Profile" while logged into the profile as 
'lipman'.
|
| But, in WinXP that was not possible and needed to logon as another 
administrative user to
| copy the 'lipman' profile to the "Default Profile".
|
| As I went through Win2K SP1 --> SP4  started to find that a file handle in 
the 'lipman'
| profile would be in use thus blocking the copy process to the "Default 
Profile".  I then
| found that in Win2K SP4 I needed to logon as an another administrative 
user to copy the
| 'lipman' profile to the "Default Profile".
|
| Then I understood why WinXP by default I needed to logon as another 
administrative user to
| copy the 'lipman' profile to the "Default Profile".
|
| I also noted though that once in a while a file handle in the 'lipman' 
profile would be in
| use thus blocking the copy process to the "Default Profile" or it would be 
"greyed out".
| Rebooting the platform allowed the copying process to succeed.
|
| I did this on a regular basis in conjunction with Enterprise Ghost. 
Before I would create a
| Ghost Image on my Ghost Server I would go through the above steps to 
create a 'Default
| Profile'.  Then SysPrep would be executed and the PC booted from a Ghost 
Boot Disk such that
| I could image the platform (using Multi-Cast IP).
|
| This way making a clone of a model related platforms was very easy and the 
MiniWizard would
| execute on the detination platform allowing me to put a NEW IP address in, 
apply a unique
| Workstation name and add the platform to the NT/AD Domain.
|
|
|
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| Dave
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| http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
|
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