To prevent the personalized settings from disturbing your carefully crafted default profile, use Regedit to navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components

1. On the Edit menu, click Find and enter STUBPATH into the Find what.

2. Click Find Next.

3. When a STUBPATH value name is found (and selected), press Delete (if it is within the Installed Components subkey).

4. Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 until all STUBPATH value names have been deleted from the Installed Components subkey.

5. Exit Regedit