Re: What are the recommended practices for single users?

From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:41:03 +0200

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:14:18 -0700, "Bruce Chambers"

>How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

I see that excludes the user's registry, i.e. NTUser.dat, NTUser.ini
(what does the .ini do?) and the associated log file.

How does one migrate those settings to the new account?

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