That’s because the “profile” is a file set in the users folder c:\users\%username%, thus…applicaiton settings aren’t profile registry related but rather stored in the profile in various files and foldrs. The registry modification for rebuilding a profile only allows you to tell Windows Vista / 7 to rebuild the folder sets under c:\users\ folder for the respective users because you renamed their old profile to %username%.old. You could dig through that folder in the local profiles and copy that stuff over BUT if pieces of that are corrupt (which is why you want to rebuild the profile usually) you might end up copying the corrupted pieces over too.

If you wanted to try coying application settings over to your newly built profile try looking through “C:Users\%username%.old\AppData\Roaming” and copy stuff over to “C:Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming”, see what happens when you log in as that user with the rebuilt profile.

FUCK SAGE

These people are the worst! And yeah, maybe there’s worse softwares out there, and maybe it’s not as expensive as other similar software, but that no excuse. That’s like saying “well this food doesn’t taste that bad”. It doesn’t mean it’s good. SAGE fucken sucks balls.

For the kind of money they charge and the kind of money they make, fucken fix your shit.

Heres another idea…24 hour support. Are you kidding me 8:30 to 8:30 EST, is that a joke? Especially when the average hold time is 2 and a half hours, plus another couple of hours for the technicians to pull their thumb out of their ass long enough to figure out your problem and help you.

Oh and here’s another point of contention. If the SQL platform it’s based on is so complicated to use….get off it. Use anything else for fucks sake.

How these people haven’t been run out of the market is beyond me. EVERY SINGLE EXECUTIVE needs to be FIRED, and sent to prison, then be beaten daily by a disgruntled prison guard named Bubba and molested but their their prison mate Charles for the terrible things they’ve done to business all over the world.

FUCK THESE PEOPLE! FUCK’em!

IMHO, the SAGE Community is great. Sure, sometimes some people can get snippy on the forums. But, its free advice and/or tips. Like any other area you would post a question, if you post a polite and detailed question, you’ll get better response. Look on the forums and see how many posts are “My SAGE is broken, whats wrong with it?” and you would be shocked.

Personally, I love it when my customers try to fix or do things on their own. I help them out. Doing an upgrade though can sometimes be tricky, we do them all the time so we are knowledgeable. If you do an upgrade yourself every year or 2, you might not know some of the latest tips/tricks and make a costly mistake, which you might not find out about months later. Which might end up costing more to fix than having your reseller doing the conversion in the first place.

I’ve used/worked on a lot of packages too: MAS90, MAS200, Great Plains, Financial Edge, Quickbooks, Peachtree, Answers on Demand, Achieve,……. I’m sure there’s more too.

A lot of stuff from that original post has changed and the books I sent them about why software sucks and what you can do about it are still floating around the organization so maybe that’s an influence. I’m not all about bitching how crappy stuff is, if I can influence positive change I’m all about it! :)

What irks me the most is the attitude in the Sage community and from Sage that those outside the organization or outside of their channel partner relationship (a.k.a. pay to play) aren’t capable of installing their stuff or supporting it. They assume ignorance on behalf of others. This attitude from what I can tell is still strong; alive and well.

How many companies use more than 1 form layout for Invoices, PO’s, etc? Well, with GP, you can only have 1. If you want more than 1, you’ll need to modify the launch icon to open a different reporting dictionary. This means, logout of GP, launch a different icon, then print invoices. How much time will this add to business processes?

No software will do 100% of what you want it to do. Heck, you can spend millions designing your own, but after it is all done it still won’t do all that you want because your business processes would have changed.
But for the money, MAS is a great product. It won’t do everything you want, but between using Crystal Reports, Custom Office (this lets you modify panels, add user defined fields and tables, custom scripts, etc) you can get it really close.
Check out the even the user forums for SAGE MAS 90 and then look at the forums for Great Plains users.

What ERP software are you currently using?

The SAGE forums and knowledgebase are amazingly helpful. Good luck on the Great Plains sites! You’ll be lucky to get a response that year.

SAGE’s documentation blows away Great Plains too. Have you ever tried to create a custom or modify a report with Report Writer? You’ll be all black and blue from slamming your head on your desk wondering how anyone could use such a horse crap program. Crystal Reports blows it away.

I have bin looking for something like this, glad to have found it before getting myself into trouble and a lot of time for tests etc.

I will post on the result.

Thank you :)

Other than that, all we can do is spread the word to potential victims of Sage products.

The good news is that a group of companies is rapidly developing an alternative to Act! based on MySql.

This is good for the free version of MSSE, I always forget the 2nd S when I do it, I usually do MSE :P

Create a new group policy for MSE
Right click and edit it
Under the: Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Scripts (Startup/Shutdown) > double click “Startup” > click “add” > click “browse” > find your bat file.

* Often, I copy my bat file into the directory that opens.

I’d test it first before rolling it out to the masses ;-)