RE: Copying settings to new user



Thanks Andrew. I tried this and began the transfer, but then it said that I
would need 49 100MB cds to put the data onto. Is there any other way to go
about this without trying to write the data on so many cds?

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Thats fairly simple to do,just open the user account you want to save to
> transfer,
> then open file transfer wizard,set computer as old,then select the
> settings/files
> for it to save,save the data in a new folder you created,once the wizard is
> thru,
> transfer the data to a cd.In the new account set computer as new,in the
> wizard,
> browse for the files,then the wizard will auto adjust in user account.
>
> "Jehan" wrote:
>
> > I have had my computer for over a year and unknowingly have been using the
> > Administrator user name the entire time. I was just messing around with the
> > user profiles and added a new user which became the new computer
> > administrator. I was able to find the original Administrator by pressing CAD
> > in the welcome window but was wondering how I could transfer/copy my files,
> > documents, settings to the new user since I recently learned from this
> > website that I shouldn't use the administrator setting for internet
> > searching. Any thoughts? Thanks.
.



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