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What is the difference between C:\Users\Default and C:\Users\Default User folders?

What is the difference between C:\Users\Default and C:\Users\Default User folders? PS $ & "$HOME/psh/dirsize.ps1" "C:\Users\Default" 2.01 MiB PS $ & "$HOME/psh/...
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Finding where the last save location is recorded in Acrobat?

I have a couple, Adobe Acrobat DC (2020) (Win10) scanning stations that are used by a lot of workers who must scan to a particular network path. Thus, I need every user to have the default save ...
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How to disable auto-login in WSL distros?

I have an Ubuntu distribution running on WSL. Every load, it opens my user lraj22 by default. Using an /etc/wsl.conf file, I set [user] default= It still opens up my user profile. If I set it to root,...
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Why do modern systems set umasks to 0022 instead of 0002?

I never really got into this topic a lot, but from the good old days, I remember you'd want your umask to 0002 (so new files created are only writable by you, not by the group). Similar for ...
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Change Outlook default account when application is opened

I have 3 different e-mails set up on Outlook, one of them (last added) of hotmail.com server but it isn't the default email account, it's set so by the configuration. But whenever I open the Outlook ...
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How do I set up a printer shared via Samba in the default profile of a Windows 10 machine?

I currently manage a computer lab in an academic library. We have a CUPS printer shared via Samba which is used to provide cash sales printing, for students who forgot their ID cards, and for guests. ...
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Default User's Startup folder Windows 8.1 vs Windows 10

Just noticed something as I was playing around with the Startup folder of the Default user in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10: For some reason, on all of my installs of Windows 10, the Default user's ...
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Where does Windows 10 keep the information for Pinned Start icons?

I am looking for the how and where Windows 10 remembers what is pinned for individual profiles Start Menu. I have been looking to create a modified default user profile in Windows 10 Enterprise and ...
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Duplicate Windows 7 User Profile to a new user

Is there a way in Windows 7 to copy all Windows user profile information (especially desktop and UI settings, including profile picture) from an existing Windows user to a brand new user. So let's ...
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Use Firefox profile manager without changing default profile

I use different Firefox profiles for different things. (This is Firefox 16.0.2) I have one general-purpose profile that I use for normal web browsing, plus some others for other things (e.g., ...
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ALWAYS display the last / default user Windows 7 welcome screen

I have three user accounts on a Windows 7 machine: share, admin and standard. I only want the standard account to appear on the welcome screen. I know about the special accounts/user list registry ...
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Outlook 2010 - make it use the only profile automatically

I recently had to re-install my machine with Windows 7 x64 Professional, and Office 2010 including Outlook. Since that new installation, whenever I launch Outlook, it prompts for the the profile to ...
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