Changing the default user registry
October 12th, 2009
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This is handy if you need to tweak a registry setting to be applied to all users that logon for the first time to your terminal server (this only applies if you use local/non-roaming profiles).
The default user profile is not HKU\.Default as you might expect but rather you need to open the registry hive located at C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT.
Make your changes in here and they will be used whenever the system needs to create a new user profile from the template.
P.S. The HKU\.Default key is actually used for the system logon environment used to provide the logon GINA, changes you make in here affect this environment.