Print Page | Close Window

Windows 7 User Profile Copy To disabled.

Printed From: ForensiT
Category: ForensiT Support
Forum Name: Desktop Management
Forum Description: User Profile Manager questions, suggestions, comments and bug reports
URL: https://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=197
Printed Date: 28 Mar 2024 at 4:51pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.03 - http://www.webwizforums.com


Topic: Windows 7 User Profile Copy To disabled.
Posted By: vhenseler
Subject: Windows 7 User Profile Copy To disabled.
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2009 at 2:55pm
Newbie!   Windows 7 RTM 32bit Enterprise is what I am running specifically.  This issue appears to be on every flavor of Windows 7 of both RC and RTM.   In the Advanced System Settings and USER PROFILES settings, any local or domain user profile has the COPY TO button grayed out.  This has worked in XP, Vista and Windows 7 Beta.  Confirmed from many Windows 7 forums including TechEd that RC and RTM has disabled COPY Profiles!  So the question is how to COPY a local user profile to the Default profile.  I want ALL of the settings/configurations of my BASE user to end up in Default.  All new users will start with the fully configured Default profile.  Just downloaded the profwiz.exe and user guide.  Sorry looked thru forum and tried a couple of profwiz tests and can not seem to find a procedure to copy Local Profile to Default.  Thanks, Vince 



Replies:
Posted By: Support
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2009 at 6:32am
Hi Vince,
 
http://www.forensit.com/desktop-management.html - User Profile Manager for Windows Vista allows you to copy an existing profile to create a new default. On the "User Profiles" tab choose "Copy To..." Then check the "Set As Default Profile" check box on the "Copy To" dialog.
User Profile Manager for Windows Vista is still BETA software, but seems to be working fine on Windows 7 Smile


Posted By: vhenseler
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2009 at 2:04pm
Downloaded User Profile Manager for Windows Vista version 1.06.1020c and installed as admin on win7 ent 32 bit.  created local user called base which is in admin group.  Set gadgets, desktop background, printers, theme, favorites, shortcuts on desktop, Toolbar, IE 8 home screen, Power setting with password off.  base profile was ~300MB in size. Ran DUP and copy to base to DEFAULT.  Appears to copy.  Create new user test6 and add to admin group.  reboot (from shutdown) and log in as test6.  No gadgets, No desktop background, No printers, No theme, No favorites, rest appear intact but DEFAULT was only 7MB in size and test 6 was 22MB in size.  Any suggestions?  Appreciate the help.  Vince


Posted By: Support
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2009 at 4:28am

Hi Vince,

We've had chance to do some more testing on Windows 7 (32-bit) and User Profile Manager is running beautifully for us Cool Given that this is Beta software we were expecting some issues.
 
What do you mean by DUP?
 


Posted By: steevmoor
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2009 at 6:03pm
Several issues with Win 7 profile copy...

1. The school logo wallpaper doesn't copy with the profile.
2. Google Chrome seems to want to be reinitialized?

Am I missing something?

Win7 64 enterprise


Posted By: Support
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2009 at 4:24am
Thank you for your feedback. As stated above, User Profile Manager is still beta software. A new version will be released in the next few weeks.


Posted By: BrainExtender
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 7:04am
I found this solution and wrote a blog post about this issue.

It's possible to enable the "copy to" button. Read more here...

http://brainextender.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-copy-to-user-profile-button.html - Enable copy to button in windows's 7 user profile settings

It works for me.

brain extender



Print Page | Close Window

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.03 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Copyright ©2001-2019 Web Wiz Ltd. - https://www.webwiz.net