A mechanism that Microsoft Windows uses to retain individual user application settings and data between login sessions and between different computers. In other words: your settings follow you.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a collection of user settings which can be seamlessly shared between different machines or applications, or different instances of the same application
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a profile stored on a network share (as opposed to on the local machine) which can thus be accessed from any computer