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From: "sthompson" <sthompson@discussions.microsoft.com>
| can you copy osmeones profile folder and then paste it and then rename the
| profile folder lets say test then create a user account named test. Then when
| the user test logs on will the profile be the sam a the one you copied it
| from and have everything still work?
You have the right idea only backwards. It won't work your way becuase there will be a SID
problem.
Lets assume th source is...
C:\Documents and Settings\dave
Have the user TEST logon
C:\Documents and Settings\test
Now copy everthing in
C:\Documents and Settings\dave
to
C:\Documents and Settings\test
but NOT
C:\Documents and Settings\dave\ntuser.dat
If you do NOT exclude
C:\Documents and Settings\dave\ntuser.dat
When you are logged on as TEST you will have to run Regedit and change all occurances of...
C:\Documents and Settings\dave
to
C:\Documents and Settings\test
If you are doing this for default settings then you are going about it all wrong and should
be copying a fully setup and configured profile onto
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
Then when a new user logs on and creates a profile it will inherit the settings in the
"Default User" profile.
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Dave
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