Guess What? The enterprise is abandoning MS because there is absolutely no reason to upgrade to their "Home" products. Vista & 7 were designed for home users and MS has abandoned the enterprise. Using Sysprep is idiotic as you would have to go throught the intial setup process again everytime you made a change. Under your scenario I would have to login to each computer with each user ID, and make the changes for that user. When I make a change to the computer I want to save the default user profile so that anyone that logs in gets that profile. If it was not supported the option should have been removed. You can quote the same KB article (that you have been for years), instead of providing any useful information. I've been using it since Windows 2000 (which definately had problems) but have NEVER had a problem saving the Default User Profile that way under XP. Thanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights The fact is the option worked. This article points to the supported way of updating the Default User profile 959753 How to customize the default local user profile when you prepare an image of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 EN-US 959753 There were many issues with it in the prior OSes, even though those issues were not always apparent, they did exist and caused inconsistencies and lingering problems. Hello Jeff, That scenario that was used to replace the Default User Profile was unsupported in Windows Vista and unsupported in Windows XP.