I'm not sure whether this is the right section of the forum; tell me if i'm wrong. Also I apologize for my English, I'm Italian.

I want to setup one PC with a "self-resetting" user profile so that every time the user logs out everything he's done is deleted. In Windows XP I used Windows Steady State to achieve something similar.

I tried with software like Reboot Restore RX (freeware alternative to Deep Freeze), but they're not what i need (they reset all changes to the Hard Drive, which means that antiviruses and Windows itself cannot save upgrades).

I followed an howto in order to setup a Mandatory Profile on Win 8.1, because that seemed exactly what I need. My steps:

1. Create a standard user TEST. Log in that user and log out

2. Go to "Advanced System Properties" -> "User Profiles" and copy "default profile" to C:\Users\MandatoryTEST.V2 allowing "\Everyone" to access it (with "Copy to" button)

3. Open "lusrmgr.msc" and assign C:\Users\MandatoryTEST as Profile Path for user TEST

4. Log in TEST and start customizing things. Up to this point, everything works. Settings and files are preserved between logins, as expected

5. Rename the file NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN in C:\Users\MandatoryTEST.V2 directory. This should "freeze" the profile

Those steps works well until i log into TEST the second time after "mandatorizing" the profile. Default Metro apps like Weather and News suddenly disappear, and i can't access either Store nor Settings (they crash at launch). Am I doing something wrong? Or maybe there's a better way to accomplish what I want?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Hi,

In my opinion, whether temp file could use Store APP depends on Default Profile. However, default profile doesn't contains Store APP, such as, weather, finace, Bing Map, etc. If you want to use these Store App, you need to customize the default profile firstly, make sure these app componments cotained in Default Profile.

To customize Default Profile, you can refer to the contents of the link below for more details:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg241188(v=ws.10).aspx

Hi,

Do you find a solution for including apps directly in the profile ?

Best regards

KoXo