Configuring a Default User Profile
As you saw in this chapter, it can take quite a bit of time to tune up a user account and set it up “just so.” There are taskbar icons to add, things to change in File Explorer and Internet Explorer, and potentially dozens of other applications to configure. It’s bad enough doing this once, but if you have many accounts on your computer and you want them all to be set up more or less the same way (at least initially), you’re looking at a lot of setup time.
Fortunately, you can do this just once and have Windows use your settings as the base settings for other accounts. You can set up one account as you want it and copy that account’s profile to the Default user profile so that all future accounts start with ...
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