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I am going to create individual user accounts for a
company that has been having everyone login under the
admin account. Im wondering If there is any documentation
on user profiles and how to copy the exact profile to the
new one. Thanks in advance
 
If they were logging in as Admin then there is only one profile,..the Admin
profile. Just forget the profile and let it create new profiles when they
login as themselves
 
I was thinking that they were using the Domain Admin account. If you meant
the local Admin, then just have them log in as themselves, let it create the
new profile then while logged in as a Domain Admin copy the Admin profile to
the other from the Properties of "My Computer" -->User Profiles. The reason
I said Domain Admin is because neither account can be in use during the copy
so you can't use the same account you are copying from. If you don't have a
domain, then create a second Admn account locally on the machines and use
it.

You will probably still have some things in the new profile you will have to
manually recreate of configure.


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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Phillip Windell said:
If they were logging in as Admin then there is only one profile,..the Admin
profile. Just forget the profile and let it create new profiles when they
login as themselves


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


joe said:
I am going to create individual user accounts for a
company that has been having everyone login under the
admin account. Im wondering If there is any documentation
on user profiles and how to copy the exact profile to the
new one. Thanks in advance
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If none of that made any sense,..it is because I am delirious with Novacane.
I think the Dentist used several tubes of it. ;-)

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Phillip Windell said:
I was thinking that they were using the Domain Admin account. If you meant
the local Admin, then just have them log in as themselves, let it create the
new profile then while logged in as a Domain Admin copy the Admin profile to
the other from the Properties of "My Computer" -->User Profiles. The reason
I said Domain Admin is because neither account can be in use during the copy
so you can't use the same account you are copying from. If you don't have a
domain, then create a second Admn account locally on the machines and use
it.

You will probably still have some things in the new profile you will have to
manually recreate of configure.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Phillip Windell said:
If they were logging in as Admin then there is only one profile,..the Admin
profile. Just forget the profile and let it create new profiles when they
login as themselves


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


joe said:
I am going to create individual user accounts for a
company that has been having everyone login under the
admin account. Im wondering If there is any documentation
on user profiles and how to copy the exact profile to the
new one. Thanks in advance
Click to expand...
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Thanks Phillip.
I tested new account on my pc. before i checked for any
updated posts. logged in as new user then logged out and
back into domain admin account and copied the profiles
from the admin account to the user account. and it
actually worked. I had it fail before and i didn't know
why. I suspected that it was because I was in the account
i was trying to copy. It seemed to have copied everything
so far...favorites, email, cached sites.
I liked using poledit so much better. I used to work at a
school and we had strict policies. nt 4.0 server and 98
clients. just carried around floppy with poledit and could
make profiles retrieve info from any profile I wanted.
 
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