Re: How to copy user profiles?
From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 12/01/02
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From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:38:32 -0700
Did you try the Help system ?
In my English version of XP Pro I can search with
copy user profile
to get to the copy a user profile task.
You may also want to copy from the original account
into the new account the contents of the .\desktop,
.\StartMenu, .\favorites folders
-- Roger Abell MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone "Attila" <attila@ambro.hu> wrote in message news:Onbo1EVmCHA.2644@tkmsftngp02... > <please read all of this message> > Hi, > > At the place where I work me and two colleagues of mine > use the same computer which has Windows XP Professional > installed on it. Presently there is only one user account and > we all use that one. I would like to change this and create two > more accounts so all of us would have an own (system mana- > ger) account. But there is a problem... > > When I simply created a new user account, and checked it > out, I sadly discovered that approx. 60% of the installed > applications were missing, and all the Windows settings were > the default (like after installing Windows XP). So the original > and the new user account were far not the same... > > I would like three COMPLETELY SIMILAR user accounts, > which all have the same programs installed and all have the > same settings (later my colleagues can personalize their > account but we all need all present applications and settings). > > So I copied the original user profile (I tryed around (really) 10 > times...) and when it finally was "successful" it took Windows > 35 minutes(!) to shut down and when next started it write me > lots of error messages and on the primary HDD I found two > directroies which was completely unaccessible (I even could > not look into them, but I found their space usage together > were mroe than 2 GB!). As Windows did many errors after > this I had to reinstall Windows XP... And after one week > trying and reinstalling we still have one account. > > So finally my question: HOW CAN I CREATE TWO OR > MORE EXACTLY SIMILAR USER ACCOUNTS WHICH > CONTATINS ALL THE SAME PROGRAMS AND HAVE > ALL THE SAME ETTING LIKE THEIR ORIGIN ("parent > account")? I cannot beleive that after creating two more > accounts I should do all the settings also and install all the > programs again (2 times). This would take days. (And > what if somebody would like to do 10 similar user accounts? > Then install all applications and do all settings 10 times? I > cannot beleive. On the other hand I found no info on this topic.) > > Please help me and please give me detailed (or even step by > step) instruction, because I don't want to re-install Windows > again...:-) Or if you know an article about this please give me > its address. > > Thank you in advance very much. > > Attila > Hungary > > P.S. I post this message to a few other newsgroups also, > because I really don't know which one this question shouéd > go into... > >
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