Anyone know the method or documentation for the method to modify the Default User profile in Vista Business? When I try to overwrite the C:\Users\Default User profile with the template profile I created (by going into System Properties and using the "Copy to..." button), it warns me that I'm going to overwrite the files, I click ok, then nothing happens, no error message or anything and it does not overwrite the profile. It just takes me back to the Copy To window, and when I click ok again, it prompts me again that I'm going to overwrite the contents of the directory, and then it just goes back to the Copy To window again and never overwrites the profile.

Thanks.

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Click the Change button under the Permitted To Use section. You need to change it to set it to the Everyone group.

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However, I still ended up hosing my system, believe it or not. When I went to copy the profile, I noticed there were both C:\Users\Default and C:\Users\Default Users folders in there. So I tried looking up what the difference was and the best I could get was they were there for backwards compatibility.
(As a side note, I did finally come across directions online for modifying the Default profile,
https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1452752&SiteID=17)

So I overwrote the \Default profile and tested it, and it seemed to work, but I still got things like the "Gadget" bar coming up, some Lenovo registration prompts, and some other things I had tried to disable in the template profile that did not copy over, so I went back and tried overwriting the "C:\Default User" folder. Big mistake! After that, any new user I tried logging in as who did not already have a profile, I got an error message about the profile manager could not logon and the logon failed. I tried to restore the C:\Users\Default User to a previous version within the folder properties (using Shadow Copy snapshots), but kept getting an access denied message, and then all the previous versions disappeared after the 2nd attempt. I tried a System Restore to the previous day and that fixed the logon problem, but then I got odd \Default User(147) \Default(136) folders and the system does not work right; network connections keep dropping, some previous programs I installed won't run and I can't seem to reinstall them, etc.

So I'm just going to wipe it and start from scratch as I'd rather have a healthy system as a base template to start with. But this time I'll only overwrite the \Default folder and leave the rest alone.

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