Thank you for the reply. Just to be clear, View does not do any shell folder redirection? I understand that the default for the user shell folders is to place them in the profile, so if the profile is redirected, then so are the shell folders (such a My Documents). But it does not explicitly modify any of the shell registry keys? Such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders.
If it is modifying "Public" then it is redirecting the the desktop and folders of the "all users profile" (in Windows 7 known as the common profile or public profile).
If it is modifying "Default" then it is also redirecting the default profile - from which other profiles are generated.
I am surprised it is not also modifying ProgramData. That folder would be a must for a complete profile capture because it holds program preferences for the user (A 64-bit Windows 7-aware program stores User-specific configurations in a sub-directory under C:\ProgramData).
Again, thank you for the reply, it is greatly appreciated.