Guide to Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Profiles and Policies

A user profile consists of a registry hive and a set of profile folders stored in the file system. Registry hive. User profiles take advantage of the hive feature to provide roaming profile functionality. The user profile registry hive is the NTuser.dat in file form, and is mapped to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER portion of the registry when the user ... ................
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