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I have installed all my software on my laptop as an administrator since I
made myself as an administrator group member using Windows 2000.

Now, I have a server and made my laptop to join the domain of my server.
So, it created another profile on my computer (which is not really an
issue). The issue is that some of the software that I am already using the
software is asking me to either re-install or it sometimes it installs
itself again.

Is there a way that when I install the software on any machine that this
software will be available to all users. Since sometimes, I need to work
without joining the domain.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
 
I have installed all my software on my laptop as an administrator
since I made myself as an administrator group member using Windows
2000.

Now, I have a server and made my laptop to join the domain of my
server. So, it created another profile on my computer (which is
not really an issue). The issue is that some of the software that
I am already using the software is asking me to either re-install
or it sometimes it installs itself again.

Is there a way that when I install the software on any machine
that this software will be available to all users. Since
sometimes, I need to work without joining the domain.
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Copy your profile to C:\documents and settings\default user and then
make sure the permissions are set to Everyone-Full Control on the new
profile. Every new user will get your profile, including your
NTUSER.DAT. So best practices would dictate that you:

1. Copy this profile over ASAP, as your profile will usually grow
without bound and you don't want users with 10 MB+ profiles!

2. Remove unnecessary folders and icons in the default profile, such as
the Entertainment folder

In order to do #2, you may have to copy your profile to the Default
User profile, then login as another user, say testuser, and then remove
the icons from your test profile instead of your administrator profile
and then copy the test user profile back to Default User. You'll have
to login as someone else any ways, because you cannot copy your
administrator profile when you are logged in AS administrator.

This NTUSER.DAT file will only contain the HKEY_CURRENT_USER part of
the registry. Any entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE won't get copied over.
So if any of the programs install services, those won't be copied over
(of course, the assumption is that you already installed those services
under your administrator account on that box).

Adam
 
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