Comments on: How To Copy Profile In Windows 7 for Default Domain NETLOGON

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:04:43 +0000

It may not be corrupted but as a last resort you could create a new one.
You have renamed a profle to default. The account you renamed the profile for now has no profile. Windows thinks it has and won’t grab a new one.

Try with another user account.

The DFS profile is where you copy it to the domain. The Distributed File System is where the domain profile is downloaded from.

By: Lazy D

Lazy D — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:54:38 +0000

Thanks for your reply Ben.

“Your profile is likely corrupted or you have deleted a profile for a user”

When you say profile is corrupted, you’re referring to the profile of the default user that I created with your method? Not sure how that would have become corrupted, I followed your instructions exactly. Again, have not deleted any profiles as I followed your instructions exactly. I’ve done this twice now on 2 different machines with same bad result. There is nothing special about my w7 installation, it’s w7 pro sp1.

“Try a diffrent user, also you MUST keep a default profile on the machine as well as the DFS profile”
I thought the default profile we created from the custom profile becomes the default profile on the machine from doing this process? No? Not sure what you mean by “DFS profile”?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:40:25 +0000

Your profile is likely corrupted or you have deleted a profile for a user.
Try a diffrent user, also you MUST keep a default profile on the machine as well as the DFS profile

By: Lazy D

Lazy D — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:25:53 +0000

Ben, can you help.

I’ve followed your steps exactly but when I go to logon I get this error:

“The User Profile Service service failed the logon.

User profile cannot be loaded.”

I get this when attempting to log in with a newly created test domain account with \\server\NETLOGON\Default User.v2 as the profile path (obviously with my server name). I also get it when attempting to log in with new local accounts as it seems this new default profile I’ve created doesn’t fully work.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:36:40 +0000

Not sure what you mean, this is how to copy it off the machine.
For domains read the last part

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

By: dang

dang — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:35:48 +0000

we have so many production users,,before we use xp and its very easy to use the domain profile for thousands of users..now we are now using win7..what a bloody work we will configure it 1 by 1 in a thousand users?

By: me

me — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:16:52 +0000

try this everyone – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0FT3WbcVEM

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:03:01 +0000

The article is to copy a custom profile to a domain location.
This is accomplished by renaming it to the default profile.

I’m not sure what you were trying to do.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:58:30 +0000

I logged in as a domain admin, renamed the Default profile to DeafultBAK and then renamed the profile that I had customised (which was a another domain admin user account) to Default and then in Advanced – User Profiles I Copy To Default Profile and browsed to C:\users\Default and clicked OK. Nothing seemed to happen. So I clicked Cancel and went to log in as a new domain user and i received an error to say logon was corrupt and Win 7 logged me off as that user.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:35:05 +0000

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!