Re: Restore User Accounts

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A clean install would leave no reminance of the old OS and its files would it
not ? :)



"Steve N." wrote:

> TOMH wrote:
>
> > I just installed a clean copy of windows. All prior user acounts are not
> > available although they apear to be fucntional within the "documents and
> > settings" folder. Is there anyway to recover or restore these older user
> > proilfes from the "documents and settings" folder, even theough they do not
> > appear active?
>
> Try this:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151
>
> Be aware there is a step missing; you must login to the new user account
> once before copying the old profile data, otherwise there will be no
> destination folder to copy to.
>
> Steve
>
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