How To Copy Profile In Windows 7 for Default Domain NETLOGON

In Windows 7 for some reason you cannot use “Copy To” in the profile section. This is very poor and contrary to what Microsoft says. Using this method you can copy your custom profile to another location enabling you to create a netlogon\Default User.v2

How To

Create you custom profile. Logoff this user and login to another admin account
Open My Computer and hold down ALT. This will show the file menu. Click Tools then Options.

Change the Radio Button to: Show Hidden Files
Uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files

Now Navigate to:

c:\users

Rename the Default Folder
Rename you custom profile to Default

Now you can use Copy To

If you are setting up a default domain profile copy the profile to:

\\server\NETLOGON\Default User.v2

Benosullivan.co.uk - Top Tutorials

Search Terms for this Article:

copy profile windows 7, windows 7 default profile, windows 7 copy profile, default user v2, netlogon windows 7, windows 7 netlogon, default profile windows 7, copy user profile windows 7, copy windows 7 profile, windows 7 profile copy

Trackbacks

How do "you" set up your windows 7 machines?

17 Comments (Newest on top)

jose says:

26/11/2009 at 11:49 pm

Sorry. But, for me, that metod does not function.

Reply
- Ben says:
  
  27/11/2009 at 8:43 am
  
  Very sorry to hear that.
  I have tried this on many Windows 7 machines successfully,
  What part were you having a problem with.
  
  Reply
john says:

26/02/2010 at 11:57 am

Thanks, worked for me. Very smart workaround it is just briliant.

Reply
Robert says:

25/05/2010 at 3:23 pm

I didn’t understand if you are renaming the customized profile to “Default” then what would you need to copy it to. The problem is copying the customized profile to the default user profile. That said, I renamed the custom profile to default and attempted to login. If I was an admin, it worked minus the desktop background. If I was any other domain user, the logon service failed according to a logon error message. Didn’t work. Sorry.

Reply
- Ben says:
  
  26/05/2010 at 9:30 am
  
  In Windows 7 you can only copy the default profile.
  This is why you need to rename it, so you can copy it successfully.
  Domain users need the profile in the location \\server\NETLOGON\Default User.v2 as explained in the article
  
  Reply
  - Chris says:
    
    14/06/2010 at 3:34 pm
    
    So since you renamed the custom profile to default…what do you copy it to?
    
    Reply
annoyed says:

25/08/2010 at 11:34 pm

This works but for some reason I keep getting corrupted recycle bin errors from the user I copied as Default. This happens every time I log in as any user who default settings.

Reply
Tom says:

06/09/2010 at 6:35 pm

Worked like a charm! I had been using the moveuser.exe (part of Server 2003 Resource Kit) program for all my XP machines, but started to sweat when it wouldn’t work for Win7 and the Copy To button was grayed out.

Many thanks!

Reply