User profiles are settings for desktop display, printer and network connection settings, etc. You or your system administrator can define your desktop environment.

Types of user profiles include:

• Local user profile: Such type of profile is created when any authorized user logs on workstation or server for the first time.

• Roaming user profile: Such type of profile is created by administrator and stored on a server. This profile is available every time you log on to any computer on the network. Incase some changes are made to profile then profile on server is automatically updated.

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• Mandatory user profile: Such type of profile is downloaded to the user's desktop each time the user logs on, and is created by an administrator and assigned to one or more users to create consistent or job-specific user profiles. Only members of the Administrators group can change profiles.

• Temporary user profile: Such type of profile is used as backup. If the roaming or mandatory profile is not available for some reason, a temporary user profile is automatically created for the user. The temporary profile is deleted when the user log out. so any changes that the user makes while using a temporary profile are lost at the end of the session.