Issue in demoting users from Admin to Power Users

From: scot welker (scotwelker_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/11/05

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    I have found it necessary to remove local admin rights for users on their W2K
    workstations. We went through a conversion of sorts recently which required
    them to be admin for that conversion. Their network user names will not be
    changing so I have demoted to Power User level and made sure the existing
    user profile under documents and settings is afforded full rights with this
    same login name. That way, I assume they will login with the same profile
    and get the same settings for desktop/office/outlook. I have tested this on
    a machine I setup for this purpose and all went fine. I went to do a test
    with my first real user and it says she's using the same profile but nothing
    carries over. In fact, none of her network mapped drives or redirected My
    Documents folder contain anything. We redirect the My Documents folder to a
    folder on the net. Am I missing a step I must do? Since it says she's
    logged in with the same profile (verified by typing 'set' at command prompt),
    what would cause everything including her network drives to not come back?
    In addition, why do her individual user settings/preferences not carry over?

    Thanks in advance for your assistance

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