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by mike o

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How/when does the "Default User" profile show up with the rest of the profiles? My boss did a clean reinstall of Win2K rather than waiting for an answer to our earlier thread, and now that it looks like the Default User is what we hoped, it's not showing up. He put in a few users and logged in, but apparently they're only getting the All Users profile setup. Thanks!

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

How clean was his re-install? Did he re-format? I suspect not...

A re-install over the top will preserve previous settings as best as possible and if you didn't have a default user profile before, then you still dont have one now...

Have you tried creating one? I haven't seen anything specifically about creating one so perhaps you can simply create a user called "Default User" ?

Cheers,
Tim.

by ð

all user profile will exist doesn't matter what ID you logon with. a default user profile is used only when an ID that has never log on to that workstation. This ID must not have a roaming profile, otherwise it'll download it. On a fresh build PC,the default user profile is empty or a bunch of folders with nothing in it.

by madsg

Hi Mike

The Default User group is in a hidden folder, that meens you have to activate show hidden files and folders, do that from explorer > Tools > Folder Options > Wiev > Hidden files and folders.

That should do the trick.

Best regards
Madsg

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