Re: Desktop User Profiles in W2k - Changing

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:26:09 -0700

First logon to the domain at least once as the user, then while logged on as
another user (with administrative rights) Control Panel|System|User
Profiles, select the oldprofile, Copy To, Browse to
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\newdomainprofile
Change "Permitted to use:" to "newdomainprofile" OK 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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"Larry Huffman" wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I am looking for information on how to change a users profile on a win2K
| desktop. Here is the situation. We recently changed our network naming
| conventions and in so doing each user has a new profile built. I want to
be
| able to take these new users and point them at the old profile folder on
the
| system. The users are on the same machine...I just want to recover all of
| the application settings, etc that are in the folders. I have tried
copying
| everything in and it is apparent that there are registry entries that are
| specific to that profile. If I do not find a way to do this, I will have
to
| reinstall several applications on each user's desktop.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Larry Huffman
|
|

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