Copying Profiles Loses Quick Launch

[AJP69]

Does anyone know why you lose the quick Launch toolbar when you copy a profile in Windows XP Pro.

I have built the Ideal User settings under a Build login, I then save that whole user profile to default and it works fine for local users, they get all the shortcuts on the quick lauch toolbar, desktop image, etc.

Now I want to do the same for my LAN users with Roaming profiles. SO I log in as a admin that has rights to copy all of the profiles. I then copy the profile in the normal way to a network share that is for roaming profiles and give permissions to the user I am copying to.

When I login as that user, all seems to have copied but there are no quick launch shortcuts on the toolbar. The desktop image also goes.

Any ideas would be appreciated

AJ

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;321281

 

[AJP69]

Thanks - but that was not the cause or solution to the problem.

The profile created is of a basic user, the admin login was used to copy the profile (with viewing of all hidden and protected files).

What is weird about this is that if you make a change to the quick launch bar it remembers it as you might expect. But there is no quick launch folder (hidden or otherwise)in

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

and you can even create a Quick Launch folder in the C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ folder but any icon you add to the folder does not appear on the quick launch bar.

Just for fun I dragged a shortcut call "bollo" on the quick launch bar which remained after a reboot, yet a search for bollo on drive c produced nothing either as a file or content of a file.

S T R A N G E

Guess I will have to start over and see what happens.

 

[bcastner]

Use (or create) a user profile from the default.

Then:

Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu that appears.
Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under User Profiles.
In the Profiles stored on this computer list, click the profile that you want to use for the copy.
To change the type of profile, click Change Type, click Roaming profile, and then click OK.

Then use this profile to copy up to the server. You do not want to use a non-roaming profile as the template.