User Profile

PlayStation Network - User profile 1 A player's user profile can be viewed via the XrossMediaBar#PlayStation 3 XMB|XrossMediaBar, or online through the PlayStation website.

User profile 1 A 'user profile' is a visual display of personal data associated with a specific User (computing)|user, or a customized desktop environment. A profile refers therefore to the explicit digital representation of a person's Online identity|identity. A user profile can also be considered as the computer representation of a user modeling|user model.

User profile 1 User profiles can be found on Operating Systems, computer programs, recommender systems, or Website|dynamic websites (such as Social network service|online social networking sites or bulletin boards).

Roaming user profile 1 A 'roaming user profile' is a concept in the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same.

Roaming user profile - Method of operation 1 The Windows registry is similarly divided to support roaming; there are System and Local Machine hives that stay on the local computer, plus a separate User hive (HKEY CURRENT USER) designed to be able to roam with the user profile.

Roaming user profile - Roaming reduces network performance 1 Local caching of the user profile on a desktop computer hard drive can reduce and improve login and logout times, but at the penalty of cluttering up the hard drive with profile data from every cached user who logs in

Roaming user profile - Misbehaving third-party programs don't exit 1 To deal with this, Microsoft created a utility known as the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service which will forcefully remap the file handles for these misbehaving programs so that the profile copying can finish successfully and the account logoff is successful.[ etails.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D E18- B E2F3582 User Profile Hive Cleanup Service] However, the hung program may remain on the local computer still holding the local cached copy of the User registry in a busy state, until the computer is rebooted.

Roaming user profile - Folder redirection with mandatory profiles 1 Redirecting My Documents and the Desktop in a mandatory profile will allow documents to be saved, but at logoff, any changes to the desktop appearance such as the desktop picture, Internet Explorer cookies, Favorites, and the Recent documents opened list are reverted to the original state.Microsoft MSDN, , Mandatory User Profiles, Quote: [...] a user can modify his or her desktop, but the changes are not saved when the user logs off., us/library/windows/desktop/bb776895(v=vs.8 5).aspx

Roaming user profile - Active Directory 1 When a user logs onto a domain, the roaming user profile is downloaded from the server onto the local computer and applied

Roaming user profile - Active Directory 1 Although a roaming user profile may be stored in any shared folder of a computer available inside a local Microsoft Windows network, using the domain controller is recommended because the profile data should be available at any workstation the user tries to log on to. Should the server not be available, the user will still be able to log on using a cached copy of the profile on his workstation, unless the profile is super- mandatory.

Roaming user profile - Active Directory 1 Roaming profiles on Windows 95, 98 and Me are all compatible with each other so if a network has mixture of Windows 95 and Windows 98 workstations the same user profile may be used for each workstation

Roaming user profile - Windows 3.x 1 While Windows 3.x does not contain user profiles it was possible for users to have their own personalised desktop in a business environment

Roaming user profile - Advantages of roaming user profiles 1 * Enforcement of administrative control by using mandatory user profiles which helps to protect the user's environment from being damaged by the user himself/herself.

Roaming user profile - Incompatibility across Windows releases 1 Windows 8 again uses a different upgraded format.[ Unpredictable behavior if you migrate a roaming user profile from Windows 8 to Windows 7] Thus, a user who switches-desk between any combinations of these systems cannot have personal data transferred automatically, as would normally happen with roaming profiles

Roaming user profile - Alternatives 1 The solution is scalable to hundreds of thousands of users in a single organization due to its lightweight approach of compressing the user profile, registry, and settings while in storage yet fully uncompressing it in native format on the end-point

Google Plus - User profile 1 A Google+ User profile is a public visible account of a user that is attached to many Google properties

Roaming user profiles 1 A 'roaming user profile' is a concept in the Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same.

Roaming user profiles - Compatibility 1 User profiles in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2 are also not entirely backward-compatible, although they initially used.v2 suffix as well

Roaming user profiles - Alternatives 1 User virtualization programs (such as AppSense) manage user profiles, settings, and data, storing them in a network share or cloud computing|the cloud.

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