When creating brand new users, regardless of whether they are specified
as having roaming or local profiles, the user profile is created the
same way--either from c:\documents and settings\default user or from
Netlogon\Default User. So, its not clear, based on your description, why
a new profile created as roaming would be created differently from a
local one. Some possible reasons could be that for some users it found a
different default profile (it will try to find one on Netlogon share on
DCs first before looking in the local Default User folder). Another
reason is that on one machine you are getting Group Policy that is
changing the default theme and on the other you are not. Is there any GP
configured in the environment?

Darren

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Stanford
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:08 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming profiles and XP "themes"

 

We are just about to migrate over to Server 2003 from 2000, and in our
test set up, when newly created users with roaming profiles log into an
XP station, they get a modified desktop theme, instead of the default XP
"teletubbies" one - it has the classic task bar and start menu.  This
doesn't happen if I create a user with a local profile.  I know this is
going to fox some users - does anyone know how to stop it?

TIA,
Dan
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