A Windows profile is the desktop environment configured for a particular user. It contains various settings such as desktop colors, backgrounds, icon placement, and Windows Explorer settings. The default profile is a template profile that is used when a user logs on to a Windows computer for the first time. The default profile can be customized by the image creator.
You can then create another account and log in using it to make sure your profile settings take affect for new users. Be sure to delete it once you're done testing.
Microsoft does not support copying profiles under Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The “Copy To” button is grayed out for all profiles except the default profile. The only supported method is built into Sysprep and this method is itself very problematic. The following steps are not supported or recommended by Microsoft but seem to work:
over with a new account, delete the existing account and then create a new one: Click on the VCLProfile user Click Delete the account Click Delete Files Click Delete Account Click Create a new account Enter the account name: VCLProfile Click the radio button next to Administrator Click Create Account
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Rename the customized profile folder: C:\Users\VCLProfile -> C:\Users\Default
Note: if you are unable to rename the VCLProfile folder, reboot the computer, login as Administrator, and try again. Run the following command from a command prompt to reboot the computer:
shutdown.exe -r -f -t 0
Copy the customized profile folder using the Windows profile copying utility
Note: Windows 7 only allows its built-in profile copying utility to be used to copy the default profile, not profiles of other user accounts. The profile you customized now resides in the default profile location (C:\Users\Default) so the utility can now be used to make a copy of it.
Replace the original customized profile directory with the one created by the Windows profile copying utility
Note: C:\Users\Default contains the original customized profile. The same profile also resides in C:\Users\Default Copy. The Default Copy folder is the one which has had the Windows profile copying utility transformations applied to it.
Delete the VCLProfile account
Any new local user accounts created on the computer should receive a user profile configured with the customizations you made to the VCLProfile account.
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