Re: Xp Home SP2 Problems

From: NobodyMan (none_at_none.net)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:39:32 -0400

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:22:02 -0700, "the dude"
<thedude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>under xp pro
>
>make sure the administrator password is the exact same as on the install of home
>
>if you were logging in as a seperate account from the administrator account on the home installation create an account in pro with the same name and your exact old password as on home
>
>then follow the instrautions listed in the help article for taking possesion of your old files
>

This won't work. It doesn't matter if the account and password are
exactly the same under both installations. The SID (security
identifier) of the two accounts aren't identical, regardless of the
username/password thing. The OP needs to take ownership of the old
profile folder.

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