Category: Windows Technologies

Have you ever wondered how do Users Get Their Profile loaded on Windows PCs? Here is an overview of how it happens… Roaming Profile – New User The user logs on.    The path to the users roaming profile is retrieved from the user object on the Domain Controller (\<domain name><path to profiles><user roaming profile>). Windows checks to see if a profile exists in the roaming path, if no profile exists a folder is created. Windows checks the list of user profiles located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList         to determine if a cached copy of the profile exists. If a local copy of […]

NoSaveSettings HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer Data type Range Default value REG_DWORD 0 | 1 0 Description Prevents users from saving certain changes to the desktop. Users can change the desktop, but some changes, such as the positions of open windows or the size and position of the taskbar, are not saved when users log off. Shortcuts placed on the desktop are always saved. This entry stores the setting of the Don’t save settings at exit Group Policy. Group Policy adds this entry to the registry with a value of 1 when you enable the policy. If you disable the policy or set it […]

When you log off, the "saving your settings" phase takes longer than one minute, and the user profile may not unload. You may also receive the following event message in the event log: Type: Error Event Id: 1000 Source: Userenv Description: Windows cannot unload your registry file. If you have a roaming profile, your settings are not replicated. Contact your administrator. This issue may be caused by a problem with the spooler service. There is a hotfix available from Microsoft for Windows server 2000/2003, versions. Have the hotfix installed from here and also go through the related hotfix specifically for […]