How to clone administrator account in XP?

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Dave

I've been building a new system over the past week with WinXP installed
from scratch. Everything came up fine and my WinXP installation was
unremarkable. I reinstalled a bunch of my applications before realizing
that I was doing all this under the Administrator acccount. I had
created a user with my name during the WinXP setup thinking that I would
install everything from there, but I wasn't paying attention in my haste
to get up and running and just kept logging into the admin account and
merrily doing my installs.

I suppose I can just continue doing this since I'm the only user of the
machine, but if I wanted to clone the entire admin account to a new user
including all desktop and application preferences, wallpaper, font
settings, etc., is it possible to do that? (Easily?)

Thanks for any help.

Dave
 
Dave said:
I suppose I can just continue doing this since I'm the only user of the
machine, but if I wanted to clone the entire admin account to a new user
including all desktop and application preferences, wallpaper, font
settings, etc., is it possible to do that? (Easily?)
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Right click my computer select properties
click advanced
click settings in the frame labelled "user profiles" (in the middle)
Select your admin account
Click copy to

I believe this achieves what you are wanting...
 
Dave said:
I've been building a new system over the past week with WinXP installed
from scratch. Everything came up fine and my WinXP installation was
unremarkable. I reinstalled a bunch of my applications before realizing
that I was doing all this under the Administrator acccount. I had
created a user with my name during the WinXP setup thinking that I would
install everything from there, but I wasn't paying attention in my haste
to get up and running and just kept logging into the admin account and
merrily doing my installs.

I suppose I can just continue doing this since I'm the only user of the
machine, but if I wanted to clone the entire admin account to a new user
including all desktop and application preferences, wallpaper, font
settings, etc., is it possible to do that? (Easily?)

Thanks for any help.

Dave
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If no more than one user is added during the install of XP, then the one
user account is automatically made the administrator - there has to be one.
So don't see what the problem is. Also if no password is entered for the one
user, then XP boots right in to Windows, which is the way I like it, with no
log-in screen...
 
The MS sysprep program will copy the Administrator profile settings to the
default user account template when you do a 'reseal'. All newly created
user accounts will be in that likeness then. See the documentation for
MS sysprep. Use sysprep at your own risk, as it is an OEM setup
tool (not for the uninitiated end user)!

AJ
 
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