"Blackberry" <info@NoSpamIt.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> I work in a number of schools and I have to set up (too) many PCs in the
> same standard form. Because 99% of these are Win2K3 clients we are
> talking
> numerous user profiles as well, so I currently log on as one user, set the
> Desktop, Screensaveer, etc stuff up and then copy the NTUSER file from
> this
> account to the default user so that every user profile that logs on has
> this
> style. This seems to work fine, but I would now like to take this a step
> further and keep of a copy of this NTUSER file so that on a new machine I
> simply drop this into the default user folder straight away.
>
> My question is, am I allowed to do this from one machine to another or
> will
> it screw it up? Although 99% of our machines are XP Pro SP2, if I dropped
> my master NTUSER file into a Win XP Home or Win XP Pro SP1 PC would it
> screw
> things up?

If 99% are w2k and 99% are xp, what are the other -98%? ;-)

I'd advise against trying to use an NTUSER file in any other o/s-sp
combination than the one it was created on. Whether it would work on
identical machines, well, you could just try it yourself.

/Al