User Profile Editor

On computers running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server, user profiles automatically create and maintain the desktop settings for each user's work environment on the local computer. (Although you can save user profiles in shared network directories on SunLink Server computers, user profiles have no effect on those particular computers--only on the clients served by them.)

You can create and modify user profiles using the User Profile Editor tool.

In Windows NT and Windows 95, a user profile is created for each user when the user logs on to a computer for the first time. User profiles provide the following advantages to users:

• When users log on to their workstations, they receive the desktop settings as they existed when they logged off.

• Several users can use the same computer, with each receiving a customized desktop when they log on.

• User profiles stored on a server enable the profiles to follow users to any computer running the Windows NT or SunLink Server software on the network. These are called roaming user profiles.

As an administrative tool, user profiles provide the following options:

• You can create customized user profiles and assign them to users to provide consistent work environments that are appropriate to their tasks.

• You can specify common group settings for all users.

• You can assign mandatory user profiles to prevent users from changing any desktop settings.

Other Windows NT tools available to many administrators include WINS Manager, Registry Editor (Regedit32), Disk Administrator, Performance Monitor, and a Backup utility. Detailed information about these and the previously described Windows NT tools, as well as instructions for using them, are included in the tools' online help and your Windows NT network documentation.