Personalsied Settings always runs when Meta Profiles is enabled?

Remove all "stubpath" regedit entry in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSetup\Installed Components

See the Microsoft KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238441/en-us

You may want to leave some in though - Like the themes stubpath.

Dan.

When I build a new VM Template or Terminal Server I search this key for any stubpath values and delete them (the values, not the keys). This knocks about 10-15 seconds off of the logon.

Right. It does make it a lot faster but be careful removing it without checking. Windows sometimes uses it to update certain Windows settings. For example if you have a profile for a windows desktop and used WMP11. if the VM or TS then gets updated to WMP12, the next time the user logs in Active Setup would update certain settings to WMP12. I think...

Daniel,

I had tried saving HKCU\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Active Setup following Paulo response and it did stop most of the personalized running except I think IE.  I suspect however that once you log into a different RDS or Win7 image that it runs again.  I may also have the theme issue you pointed out.  I'll let you know when I have spent more time on it again.

Cheers

Cool.

I found that I could roam from VDI VM to VDI VM without the active setup components configuring again... It was just the theme issue letting me down.

I've tried using RegShot to capture the change when done manually but it didn't really help.

I don't want to use GPO to force the theme as we want the users to be able to choose.

Cheers,

Dan

You can assign mandatory profile to users. The only downside of this - difference between XP and Vista/Win7 profiles.

Here's a helpful TechNet article on the Themes issue:

http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/08/17/1769692.aspx

Hi Jon,

Cool link... If I get chance before next week I'll look into it and post the outcome. Going to IPEXPO so not much time!

Cheers,

Dan.

Ok.... The "workaround" in that URL works when done manually on a Windows 7 machine (not tried RDS yet). So I'm confident that we can get the required result with vWorkspace. I just need to figure the best way to allow the user to be able to change the theme without it reverting back to the one we specify as default on the next login.

Maybe have the login script only run IF THEME = CLASSIC? I can't imagine any users would purposely choose the classic theme?

Feel free to share ideas?

Dan.

I also use AUTORUNS for sysinternals (http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip) to search and turn off any unwanted auto-executes from my template.