Re: User Account Settings

From: Dan Walker (danjwalker_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:03:44 -0000

Usually it is gone forever, unless you have system restore...

Try restoring a few days ago, then copy the things from the profile.

Learn this for the future, customers are not clever. Always backup their
things first.

"Mitch Garvis, MCP" <MitchGarvisMCP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F3704698-0AB7-474E-A773-A03E5A6EFB85@microsoft.com...
>I disjoined a Windows XP Pro workstation from a domain and then joined it
>to
> another domain. It was only after the fact that the client changed his
> mind
> and told me he needed to preserve aspects such as:
>
> - Rules from Outlook 2003
> - Custom Dictionaries and Auto-Completes in Word/Office
>
> Of course when I asked the client if he wanted me to migrate Profiles he
> told me he did not want to incur the expense, but now it seems that it may
> cost him slightly more. Does anyone have a way I can retrieve these items
> from a User Profile that is marked as Unknown?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Mitch
> --
> Mitchell D. Garvis, MCP
> www.e-mitch.com

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