{"id":802,"date":"2016-11-03T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/?p=802"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:10:18","slug":"windows-clean-the-default-user-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/windows-clean-the-default-user-hive\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows &#8211; Clean the Default User Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clean the Registry for the Customized Profile<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in as the local Administrator and run regedit<\/li>\n<li>Select to highlight it: &#8220;HKEY_USERS&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Select Load Hive from the File menu<\/li>\n<li>Browse to your profile\/template user directory and select &#8220;ntuser.dat&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Enter &#8220;DU&#8221; for the key name (perhaps anything for the Key Name works here &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to Navigate to: HKEY_USERS\\DU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders<\/li>\n<li>Delete everything EXCEPT (Default) and &#8220;!Do not use this registry key&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use the &#8220;Find&#8221; function to find anything else that refers to c:\\users\\username (where username is the specific name of your profile\/template user).  Now comes the tricky part, for each of these you&#8217;ll need to decide if they shuold remain of if they should be changed.  If changed, you should probably replace the c:\\users\\username part with the environment variable: %USERPROFILE%<\/li>\n<li>REALLY IMPORTANT  &#8212;- UNLOAD the user hive from the File menu!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details and pictures see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cwiki.apache.org\/confluence\/display\/VCL\/How+to+Configure+the+Windows+Default+User+Profile\">https:\/\/cwiki.apache.org\/confluence\/display\/VCL\/How+to+Configure+the+Windows+Default+User+Profile<\/a><br \/>\n(This is somewhat old and for windows 10 the only recommended way to copy a profile is with the sysprep &#8220;copyprofile&#8221; setting!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean the Registry for the Customized Profile Log in as the local Administrator and run regedit Select to highlight it: &#8220;HKEY_USERS&#8221; Select Load Hive from the File menu Browse to your profile\/template user directory and select &#8220;ntuser.dat&#8221; Enter &#8220;DU&#8221; for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/labs\/windows-clean-the-default-user-hive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10086],"tags":[29497,10092,10088],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","tag-default-user","tag-user-profile","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/lj1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}