Scratch Disk & Windows 7 Default User

Hello,
I've been trying to set scratch disks for quite a few computers from the admin account to the secondary 1TB disk, for the admin acc this works perfectly fine. However, as soon as a new domain user logs in his / her scratch disk settings are back to default.
I'm quite lost right now where to start looking when it comes to settings, on all machines where this has been configured it's all been done before they entered the domain.
Is there any premiere setting/config file that hides itself somewhere within the C:\Users\Default of windows 7 or is there any other way to make the settings persist to every other account?
B.R
Simon

That is a Windows setting, so you need Windows help... search at
http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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