Click Create a new account. Copy files to the new user profile After you create the profile, you can copy the files from the existing profile. Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files: Ntuser. Need more help? Join the discussion. A subscription to help make the most of your time. For up to 6 people. Premium apps.
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Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Not any more so than any other account. You can indeed enable auditing and other logging as part of your filesystem auditing features or as part of the local or group security policy, but this goes for any other account too.
The question as to whether it has a password or not is complicated. The simple answer is no, but that doesn't tell the full story. It has something called evidence , which is a term used in the Windows security model to mean any form of identifying data that proves you are who you say you are. This isn't as clear-cut as just passwords or certificates, but extends to things like security tokens attached to threads or processes.
As such, it doesn't have a password in the sense that you could type something in and log into it, but it does have evidence that proves it is the SYSTEM account in order to prevent a local process from impersonating it. The important thing to remember here is that a process can run as SYSTEM but still have handles to objects that exist under a different session.
Keep in mind that sessions aren't the same as users - they're container objects that are instantiated for users when they log on. By default, services run under the null session, which you can't see. The important distinction is that you don't own that process or its handles, but you own the session under which the window exists. As for why you had trouble with deleting and renaming, I'm not sure. I'd suggest trying cmd or something similar rather than Explorer. My advice would be to read the security model sections of the Windows Internals book by Mark Russinovich, which has really in-depth explanations about how all this works.
Sign up to join this community. As they both have different SIDs though, this doesn't matter. When Windows is setting up the profile for a user remember this only happens when they log on for the first time, so you won't already have a local Administrator profile if you never logged on with that account and realises a folder with that name already exists, it simply appends the domain name or the domain name plus a number if that already exists too to the new profile name.
If you look in this key you will see several subkeys - one for each user profile on that computer, and each named with the SID of the account that it is for.
The longer SIDs are 'real' user accounts, both local and domain. If you look inside one of these keys you will see a few values, one is named ProfileImagePath and this holds the path to the user's profile directory see screenshot for example. So this is an easy way to identify which user account this SID corresponds to and this is also the way that Windows determines which profile to load when a user logs on.
So you could actually have a profile directory named anything you wanted, it does not have to be the user's username, as long as the subkey in the registry location mentioned above that is named with the user's SID has its ProfileImagePath value pointing to that directory then it will work. I'm sure many of you have used the same trick I used to use when I wanted a user to get a new profile created for whatever reason - I would just rename their existing profile directory to something different, then the next time they logged on Windows would realise it cannot find the profile and create a new one and I could copy the relevant files from their old profile directory into their new profile directory.
With Windows 7 however, MS changed this behaviour. Instead of creating a new profile and carrying on as normal, if Windows 7 cannot find your profile then you will get a warning message explaining that you are going to be logged on with a temporary profile - meaning any changes you make to the profile will be lost when you log off. Of course one way we could get around this would be to go into System Properties and delete the user profile, but this means we would have to be very sure we had copied everything we need out of the user's profile to another location first.
Depending on your Active Directory configuration, your profile may be downloaded and stored on that computer, including documents, settings, and other configuration data. That can add up to a lot of wasted storage, not to mention the potential for an unauthorized person to discover your data.
Delete user profile from command line Windows 7. Ask Question. Up vote 2 down vote favorite. Frequently I need to delete all of the user profiles on a computer except for two accounts. I would like to have a script that can perform this for me. The script must work for Windows 7.
To Disable User Profiles.
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