I'm having a bit of difficulty with Vista Home Premium after modifying the default user profile. I don't know if I did something wrong, or if I need to modify some settings, but the new standard user account I created does not show a full start menu, help menu, any taskbar settings, nor will it allow me to open any program or folder.
This is what I did.
I created a second admin account and put a password on it.
I logged in under new admin account and noticed none of my settings came over. I had no internet connection ability, no documents and the media player, which I had configured on the original admin account was now not even set up, nothing was.
I went back and read about copying the settings to the default user profile.
Here is what I did to copy to default profile:
I logged on as original admin and removed the password from the new admin account. I then logged off and logged back in to new admin account.
1) I clicked start/computer/organize/folder and search options/select view tab and show hidden files and folders/clicked ok and then closed the box.
2) Start/control panel/system and maintenance/system and in the left tasks list, selected advanced system settings.
3) In the middle user profile section/click settings
4) I selected the entry for the first admin account (the one whose settings I wanted to carry over) clicked copy to/browse
5) In the browse for box/opened C/users and selected default/clicked ok to close browse box and ok to close copy to box.
6) At prompt clicked yes to overwrite the default profile. When done closed boxes and logged out.
7) Logged back into first admin account and selected new admin account and deleted all files and deleted the account.
After this when a new account is made, all settings should be brought over from the first admin account, but this did not happen. The start menu if I click on it, it starts out blank and will only show programs when I click on the all programs link. There is no help function available it says the page is under construction. Also, no programs will open, I cannot even open a folder.
Does anybody know what the problem could be?
Thanks.
This is what I did.
I created a second admin account and put a password on it.
I logged in under new admin account and noticed none of my settings came over. I had no internet connection ability, no documents and the media player, which I had configured on the original admin account was now not even set up, nothing was.
I went back and read about copying the settings to the default user profile.
Here is what I did to copy to default profile:
I logged on as original admin and removed the password from the new admin account. I then logged off and logged back in to new admin account.
1) I clicked start/computer/organize/folder and search options/select view tab and show hidden files and folders/clicked ok and then closed the box.
2) Start/control panel/system and maintenance/system and in the left tasks list, selected advanced system settings.
3) In the middle user profile section/click settings
4) I selected the entry for the first admin account (the one whose settings I wanted to carry over) clicked copy to/browse
5) In the browse for box/opened C/users and selected default/clicked ok to close browse box and ok to close copy to box.
6) At prompt clicked yes to overwrite the default profile. When done closed boxes and logged out.
7) Logged back into first admin account and selected new admin account and deleted all files and deleted the account.
After this when a new account is made, all settings should be brought over from the first admin account, but this did not happen. The start menu if I click on it, it starts out blank and will only show programs when I click on the all programs link. There is no help function available it says the page is under construction. Also, no programs will open, I cannot even open a folder.
Does anybody know what the problem could be?
Thanks.
