Do you want to make your files and folders private? question

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xp pro sp2. When you set a password for an account this question is asked of
you: "Do you want to make your files and folders private?".

I have a different, much longer post, that I am not getting any feedback on
so I am breaking this up into several more straight forward questions.

1) what exactly happens if you say 'yes'?

1b) and more specifically, are any registry permissions changed?

and if you are up to the actual problem that this is a part of PLEASE
checkout post by me titled "good question for an xp guru"

Thanks!
 
djc said:
xp pro sp2. When you set a password for an account this question is asked of
you: "Do you want to make your files and folders private?".

I have a different, much longer post, that I am not getting any feedback on
so I am breaking this up into several more straight forward questions.

1) what exactly happens if you say 'yes'?
Click to expand...

The folder/file rights under
C:\Documents and Settings\<some user>
1b) and more specifically, are any registry permissions changed?
Click to expand...

No.
 
Glad to hear from you Torgeir!

For the full reason of this question please checkout my post titled "good
question for a good xp guru!" in the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment newsgroup.

I would greatly appreciated your input on that... especially with regard to
the process described for preparing a machine to be imaged.. more
specifically, 'copying' a user profile over the 'Default User Profile'. I
got a reply that that will cause many problems.

Thank you!
 
djc wrote on 06-Oct-2004 6:18 AM:
I would greatly appreciated your input on that... especially with regard to
the process described for preparing a machine to be imaged.. more
specifically, 'copying' a user profile over the 'Default User Profile'. I
got a reply that that will cause many problems.
Click to expand...
Copying a configured user profile over the Default Profile will cause
any processes that normally run at first logon to fail to run. It would
be better to export specific registry keys from a configured user
profile and import those to the Default User hive.

It can be a lot of work to find the right registry keys for each tweak.
www.winguides.com has a lot of registry keys to tweak the user
interface, but finding each and every key you want can be impossible.
 
Thanks Kent!
ok.. I am assuming then that the once reccomended method of preparing a
machine for imaging has changed... please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
The main part that is not recomended any longer is copying the user profile
used to configure the machine over the Default User profile.

this was the recomended process that I was taught:
1) install OS and create a regular user account and add it to the local
administrators group.
2) install all applications while logged in as that user.
3) COPY THAT USER PROFILE OVER THE DEFAULT USER PROFILE
4) create your sysprep.inf file using setupmgr.exe (setup manager) if you
want an unattended mini-setup.
5) run sysprep and shut down
6) image the machine.

please confirm for me that I should NOT do step 3 any more.

Thank you!
 
djc wrote on 07-Oct-2004 6:32 AM:
Thanks Kent!
ok.. I am assuming then that the once reccomended method of preparing a
machine for imaging has changed... please correct me if I'm wrong on that.
The main part that is not recomended any longer is copying the user profile
used to configure the machine over the Default User profile.

this was the recomended process that I was taught:
1) install OS and create a regular user account and add it to the local
administrators group.
2) install all applications while logged in as that user.
3) COPY THAT USER PROFILE OVER THE DEFAULT USER PROFILE
4) create your sysprep.inf file using setupmgr.exe (setup manager) if you
want an unattended mini-setup.
5) run sysprep and shut down
6) image the machine.

please confirm for me that I should NOT do step 3 any more.
Click to expand...

Microsoft has published conflicting KB articles on copying over the
default profile. I and other MVPs have discussed deficiencies with this
process with Microsoft people and they agree, although I think you can
still find KB articles that recommend copying over the default profile,
but I have received communications from knowledgeable Microsoft staff
that recommend against this practice. However, this is MY recommendation
based on their input. There may be others in Microsoft and other experts
who see no problem with copying over the default profile.
 
Thanks Kent. I also got good feedback from Darrell Gorter under this post
"general steps to prepare a machine for imaging yes/no?" in the
setup_deployment newsgroup in case you want to check it out. His resonse is
in line with yours as well.

thanks again for your input.
djc
 
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