Re: embedded user profiles - ?

From: Drew Cooper [MSFT] (dcoop_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:55:26 -0800

One way to do it is to set users' profiles in the Local Users and Groups UI.
This is probably another one of those things that are more difficult on XP
Home Edition, though.
Help is much better on Windows XP than you might be used to. Check out the
info there for "net user". That should work on Home, too, I believe. 

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Drew Cooper [MSFT]
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"Heidi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:930401c3ea6d$1e29da20$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I recently upgraded from ME to XP using an upgrade disc.
> All went well until I set up the user profiles in XP.  I
> first set up 4 users for each of the individuals in the
> household then decided to change/delete some of the user
> accounts so that the 2 children were combined in one
> account.  Now my welcome screen has the correctly updated
> user profiles but in the document and settings folder
> there were only 2 of the original 4 user folders set up.
> I manually created the missing user folders but the
> system won't allow me to delete or change the names of
> the folders created originally.  This would not be a
> problem for me except for the fact that the 2 original
> folders created were in the children's names and whenever
> I log in using my account...all the internet cookies and
> site path information register with one of the children's
> folders.  Is there a way to change these user profile
> folders in a more comprehensive manner rather than
> redoing the upgrade?
>
> Heidi

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