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ALWAYS display the last / default user Windows 7 welcome screen

I have three user accounts on a Windows 7 machine: share, admin and standard. I only want the standard account to appear on the welcome screen. I know about the special accounts/user list registry edit. Unfortunately, that removes the account from…
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Use Firefox profile manager without changing default profile

I use different Firefox profiles for different things. (This is Firefox 16.0.2) I have one general-purpose profile that I use for normal web browsing, plus some others for other things (e.g., javascript hacking). What I want to have is two…
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Outlook 2010 - make it use the only profile automatically

I recently had to re-install my machine with Windows 7 x64 Professional, and Office 2010 including Outlook. Since that new installation, whenever I launch Outlook, it prompts for the the profile to use - I only ever have a single one. I cannot seem…
marc_s
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How to disable auto-login in WSL distros?

I have an Ubuntu distribution running on WSL. Every load, it opens my user lraj22 by default. Using an /etc/wsl.conf file, I set [user] default= It still opens up my user profile. If I set it to root, it opens the root profile, and if I set it to…
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Default User's Startup folder Windows 8.1 vs Windows 10

Just noticed something as I was playing around with the Startup folder of the Default user in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10: For some reason, on all of my installs of Windows 10, the Default user's startup folder does not exist where it should be,…
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Where does Windows 10 keep the information for Pinned Start icons?

I am looking for the how and where Windows 10 remembers what is pinned for individual profiles Start Menu. I have been looking to create a modified default user profile in Windows 10 Enterprise and one of the most important things to change is the…
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Why do modern systems set umasks to 0022 instead of 0002?

I never really got into this topic a lot, but from the good old days, I remember you'd want your umask to 0002 (so new files created are only writable by you, not by the group). Similar for directories. I've noticed that on Ubuntu and friends as…
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How do I set up a printer shared via Samba in the default profile of a Windows 10 machine?

I currently manage a computer lab in an academic library. We have a CUPS printer shared via Samba which is used to provide cash sales printing, for students who forgot their ID cards, and for guests. It's worked great for several years. We…
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Duplicate Windows 7 User Profile to a new user

Is there a way in Windows 7 to copy all Windows user profile information (especially desktop and UI settings, including profile picture) from an existing Windows user to a brand new user. So let's say I have a user named USER1 and I want to create…
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What is the difference between C:\Users\Default and C:\Users\Default User folders?

What is the difference between C:\Users\Default and C:\Users\Default User folders? PS $ & "$HOME/psh/dirsize.ps1" "C:\Users\Default" 2.01 MiB PS $ & "$HOME/psh/dirsize.ps1" "C:\Users\Default User" dir : Access to the path "C:\Users\Default…
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Finding where the last save location is recorded in Acrobat?

I have a couple, Adobe Acrobat DC (2020) (Win10) scanning stations that are used by a lot of workers who must scan to a particular network path. Thus, I need every user to have the default save location in Acrobat to be that path. According to many…
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Change Outlook default account when application is opened

I have 3 different e-mails set up on Outlook, one of them (last added) of hotmail.com server but it isn't the default email account, it's set so by the configuration. But whenever I open the Outlook it goes to the home/inbox of that hotmail.com…
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