same autocad settings for new widows user

[gandocadguy]

All,

I have a question on how to setup XP so that new users of a PC get the correct profile, etc.

Example:

User A logs on computer goes through new PC setup of AutoCAD and our compnay profile etc, works great.

User B logs on to same comptuer AutoCAD does it's windows install but then does not get company profile etc.

Profile is not forceloaded from arg file through shortcut.

Any suggestions?

[jaberwok]

I've never done this but, after user A is set up, right-click the Start button, pick Explore then copy and paste user A's tree to replace the "All Users" one.

[gandocadguy]

I've never done this but, after user A is set up, right-click the Start button, pick Explore then copy and paste user A's tree to replace the "All Users" one.

Tried that. As it was suggested on a different website I found via internet search. Didn't work.

I think I have it sorted. I just need to place the shortcut used during our installation in the default user folder structure and remove the folders out of the all users group. I'll get that all sorted shortly and post back.

Thanks for the suggestion though :beer:

[gandocadguy]

Here's what I did. Via a bat file run from a script we're already using at Acad startup.


for /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%i in ("%USERPROFILE%") do (set user=%%i) 2>&1
echo "logged in user:%user%
IF EXIST "c:\cadtest.txt" exit
MOVE "C:\Documents and Settings\All users\start menu\programs\AutoDesk" "%userprofile%\start menu\programs\"
MOVE "c:\documents and settings\All users\desktop\G&O Civil 3D 2009.lnk" "%userprofile%\desktop\"
xcopy "%userprofile%\start menu\AutoDesk" "C:\Documents and Settings\default user\start menu\AutoDesk"
xcopy "P:\ACAD09_deployment\civil 3d 2009.lnk" "C:\Documents and Settings\default user\"
echo I did this already > c:\cadtest.txt

[jaberwok]

I did wonder - would the explore/copy idea work if you replace "all users" with "default user" ?

[gandocadguy]

More or less it does. We have a shortcut to run for a first time user to force load a company default profile and some other settings. As long as that shortcut is in the default user then it works.

My bat file above was called from thes startup script we already use to modify the 100+ comptuers we run AutoCAD on.

[jaberwok]

More or less it does. We have a shortcut to run for a first time user to force load a company default profile and some other settings. As long as that shortcut is in the default user then it works.

My bat file above was called from thes startup script we already use to modify the 100+ comptuers we run AutoCAD on.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[gandocadguy]

No problem. I'm glad I found a solution and maybe it'll help someone else. nothing worse (on here anyway) than reading old questions where the answer can't be found.