All user profiles have defaulted to High Contrast Theme

This is in an academic, RDP only environment. 3 server 2012 machines, 2 of them are DC's. The two with the problem happen to be the DC's
A student changed his/her theme to High Contrast, for whatever reason, everyones theme was changed, except Administrator. Users connect via NComputing thin clients.
Ive removed the High Contrast theme from Resources/Ease of Access, now new users dont receive the High Contrast theme by default. But existing users still have the High Contrast theme on logon.
Group Policy controls the theme settings but it doesnt seem to have any affect.
Is the High Contrast theme stored in their profile somewhere? NTUSER.DAT ? We have well over 300 users, so it is a chore to do it manually. Id like to find the registry setting that is adding this. It seems odd that only two of the three servers are doing
this. Ive compared registry settings, even imported/exported HKU/.DEFAULT but it doesnt seem to have any affect.

Hi,
Based on my knowledge, the theme does not store in NTUSER.DAT. Please let us know if you use the Microsoft remote desktop client or third party remote desktop clients.
If you third-party ones, I suggest contacting their support first.
In addition, please provide us screenshots for further research.
Thanks.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

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