Hi, It is for a day I am trying to create a mandatory profile in a windows 7 environment. It is a stand anlone windows 7. I need to create a user with mandatory profile. I went through the documents and even created unattend.xml but it does not work. When running sysprep it comes with an error and I have to reinstall OS. I do appreciate if any of you have managed to create a mandatory profile to let me know about working process, Kind regards Henry

Hi, I spent 24 hours, continious! and come with a solution. I know MicrosSoft would not be happy with this, but please do not stop this procedure with your next patch! I need to build many public PCs. History. I tried the AIK, unattend.xml,....nithing worked for me. Requirement: I need a user with Mandatory Profile in a Stand alone Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. Here is my process which worked twice! Windows 7 32-bit professional -As a user with administrator right logon, e.g AdminUser -Control Panel -> Add /remove user -> Create User00x ( standard user) -logout AdminUser -Logon as user00x -Do the changes you want -logout user00x -logon as AdminUser -go to c:\users -copy user00x to a folder e.g c:\pro. When copying (it will ask to provide administrative permissions, just click on continue) -rename it to User00xMand ((((not user00xMand.v2 and do not ask me why!) -go inside it and rename ntuser.dat to ntuser.man ( it will prompt you twice if you really want to do this, accept both prompts) -copy this User00xMand folder back to c:\users (it will ask to provide administrative permissions, just click on continue) -now rename User00xMand folder to User00xMand.v2 this time proper rights are applied -go to Compter( right click, Manage and in local User... and point the profile of User00x to be c:\users\User00xMand -logout -logon as useroox. You have a mandatory profile! I welcome any feedback with negative content where it proves it does not work. Regards, Henry

Hi, I found an official articles about you this question , please refer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289

Hi Lichcat, Thank you I have already gone through the link. There are two issues there( for me) 1-When I did all , creating unattend.xml,..and sysprep the PC and reboot; it came with error, during the boot where I had to reinstall all again. Imagine you install W7, all patches, create users make standard profile then you should choose /oobe and /generalize and even by accepting these two you came error in the middle of bootup. That is why I had to find another solution.