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Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:15 PM
We have been having problems with profiles created after the 1709 Fall Creator's update has been installed on most of our deployed images. We are not able to use FTP, access the internet using any program (Edge, IE11, Chrome, Adobe Reader, etc), and shortcuts on the desktop do not show their associated icons. There is also issues with the Settings cog and other programs not opening correctly.
We traced this down to a corrupted default user profile. Something in either the 1703 or 1709 updates corrupts this profile.
We have fixed the problem by renaming the C:\Users\Default folder and copying another one we retrieved from the internet. The new user profiles are set up correctly. All programs work and we can get on the internet, but the start tile menu is not the one we created for our deployment. The new default profile populates the start tiles with the default Microsoft tiles instead.
Is there an easy method update the default user start tiles after deployment? Everything I can find explains how to do this with sysprep. Our problem is that the computers are already deployed, and we just want to update the default profile without replacing the computer.
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Thursday, December 7, 2017 7:23 AM
Hi JillEMoody,
Try the steps provided by Badshah.
Here's how to create a Default Profile without using SysPrep.
Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Always for the purposes of imaging or managing many machines the way to do this from audit mode and with an unattend.xml in sysprep passes.
About how to update the default user profile, we could try using the built in Administrator account which is disabled and hidden by default in Vista and has no password. From an elevated command prompt issue the net user administrator /active:yes command enable it. Log on as 'Administrator' go to Control Panel\System and Maintenance\System\Advanced System Settings, and copy the desired default profile to "C:\users\Default" without editing permissions on that folder, defaults will work, just leave the field blank. New users seem to work fine although I have not thoroughly tested it, nor can I speak to best practices yet. Be sure to re-disable the Administrator account after completing this action and logging on as a different user by reversing the above command with an /active:no.
Hope it will be helpful to you
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Saturday, December 9, 2017 11:06 AM
Hi,
Haven't received your message a few days, was your issue resolved?
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:07 PM
Hi,
Any update?
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 7:09 PM
I am in the process of setting up a test computer to try this. I will let you know what I find out. I'm a little worried, in that I found something that said this method no longer works after the 1607 update.
Thursday, December 21, 2017 12:25 PM
Hi,
As far as I know, after Windows 10 1607 version, most of the problems were related to copyfile.
Feel free to try it and if any further help needed, please feel free to post back.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019 6:38 PM
I'm having a very similar issue with my customized 1703 image in which I used copyprofile during sysprep. I realize M$FT doesn't support copyprofile anymore, but their group policies aren't powerful enough to accomplish everything so we had no choice. Now that i've done in-place upgrades to 1903 the Start menu doesn't work for new profiles.
Did you ever find a fix for this?
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:34 PM
So I've been able to replace the default profile and now the Start menu opens for users. I had to delete C:\Users\Default and Public and replace them with the same folders from my 1903 template machine. Now when a new user logs into a machine that was updated from 1703 to 1903, they get my 1903 template profile and Start works. Now, I just need to find a way to automate this for in-place upgrades.
Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:41 PM
Now, I just need to find a way to automate this for in-place upgrades.
Scripts are your friend, and either PS or CMD should be able to do what you want. CMD might be easier...
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