Posts Tagged ‘User profiles’

Remove Network Printers from Users Before they Log On

I had a little trouble with an HP Printer driver that was causing the Vista PCs to hang at logon. Without going into the specifics of the problem (which comes down to poor HP drivers), I needed a way to ensure that the driver wouldn’t be active the next time that a user logged onto [...]

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Deleting files older than a specific date or age

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all. Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems. The forfiles command will allow you to set [...]

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%Logonserver% session variable doesn’t work on network Vista logon

Some grief today as I found that Vista wasn’t behaving with user profiles. Whenever a user attempted to logon, he or she would be greeted with the following popup: Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when [...]

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