transfering profiles from administrator to a newly created profile???

[gtb55447work]

When I installed Win2k PRO on my machine, I just used the administrator profile, is there a way for me to transfer my admin profile to a newly created user profile with admin rights? I know how to create the new user, and give him admin rights but would I just copy the folders under "Documents and Settings" over to the newly created profile? Any suggestions?

 

[Patriot]

You should be able to copy things like Favorites and documents no problems, but anything more than that you will probably start running into hidden/system files, etc.

 

[Spiff]

This works under NT 4.0 and I'm almost certain I did the same on Win2k and the process if nearly identical... been awhile so I cannot recall clearly and I'm not near a Win2k system at this time.

- log in once with the secondary acct. This will create the initial profile
- log out and then log back in with the Admin acct
- rt-clk my computer-->properties
- select user profiles tab (or equivalent) tab
- hilight the user profile you wish to copy (in this case the Admin acct)
- choose "copy to"

at this point a dialog box should open asking you for the path to the location of the destination profile. use browse to drill down to the secondary profile and hilight it. hit okay... keep in mind profile directories for Win2k are under the "documents and settings" directory tree.

- close everything out
- log out and then log back in with the secondary acct. desktop, profile folders, faves, start menu, etc... should all look the same as the Admin acct

As I said above, the Win2k step-by-step may have slight variations, however that's general gist of copying profiles. I'm fairly certain I have copied profiles before under Win2k.

 

[ThurzNite]

Is there any way to copy a win95 profile to a server and be able to use the profile on a winNT box?
Jay

 

[Spiff]

I'm not aware of any to do this. NT and Win9x store registry information differently, so things like desktop settings would not apply. You could copy folders from the start menu or items in the desktop folder (objects that would appear on the desktop), but unless the NT system had exact same paths to the sources, all your shortcuts would be of no use.