Re: Connecting to a Domain while retaining settings

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Chris.Smith.IT@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks Anton.
Should have thought of that.

While I'm on the point. A second question.

I Join Domain 1 on Monday to Wednesday then on Thurday and friday am at
another employer and join Domain 2 .

Each time I join a domain the old settings are lost etc. Is there a
way of retaining these settings so as I jump domains its less of a
pain???

(this can get worse as I relieve at a few places but have to supply my
own notebook. so some time its domain 3 4 & 5....)

At the moment I either put up with it or use standards shares...

Chris


Anton Pegan wrote:
Hi Chris,

You can just copy the old user profile to the new one. Just open the folder
C:\Document and Settings\OldProfile and copy its folders (Desktop,
Favorites, etc.) to the newly created profile. Take a look at the following
article for more details:

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

Regards,

Anton Pegan

<Chris.Smith.IT@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I will have to connect a laptop to a domain. This Laptop is running XP
Pro and has been a standalone PC for some time. If I connect it to a
domain all the personal settings of the user are lost and a new set are
created.
How can I connect to a domain but retain the current deskyop apps etc.


Here are a couple of thoughts, untested of course...

1) Have a separate userid for each customer.

2) Perform a Windows XP System Restore, create a checkpoint respective of customer

king-daddy
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