If I'm understanding you right, it is possible. It involves 1) logging in as new user, 2) tweaking the permissions on the old profile to give new user full access, you'll need an admin account to do this, 3) tweaking the area in the registry that lists the new account to point to the old profile, 4) logon as new account - u should see your old profiles customizations and data. You may need to re-enter certain passwords (like email).
The registry location is as follows, you might google this to get a bit more of a detailed explanation: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList I guess I don't much trust the tools that copy an old profile to a new area, figure some applications may hard code the path to the old profile in a way that the copy profile tools don't account for. Mebbe I'm paranoid. May also be a complication in cleanup the old accounts profile, as you now have two accounts pointing to the same profile. Anthony ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Johnson Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:01 AM Subject: RE: Profiles Thanks everyone, that is what I did. I was just surfing the net and my old documents. I thought there was a way to do this via permissions and the registry. Well I will take this route. Thanks AGAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: RE: Profiles Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:21:11 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Shawn, Since you had to recreate the user accounts, they’ll have received new SIDs and new profiles. You’ll want to copy the OLD profile INTO the new profile. During the profile copy to function, be sure to specify the new user account or the everyone account as permitted to use, then copy to the new profile location. On the individual PC with the profiles, right click the My Computer icon, choose properties—then advanced tab, user profiles. You may also want to, after the copy, reset the ownership of everything within that profile to the new owner. Overall, you should be able to get most of the profile settings back to original this way, however if there are components within that are specific to the old-no-longer existent SID, those will likely be lost. I’ve not done this to specifically recreate a profile, however have done this many times to ‘replicate’ settings between profiles for accounts. These aren’t roaming profiles, right? Bob From: Shawn Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:12 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: RE: Profiles I'll ask it a different way. How can I point a particular user login to a certain profile subdirectory on a local machine? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Profiles Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:21:19 -0700 I had an individual delete some user id's out of ad. I had to recreate the id's, as a result it created new local profiles. I tried adding the new id to the share, propogating it down then have the person log in and it still creates a new local profile. How can I have the person log in and have their old profile apply (without copying the old profile to the new one). thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find Out How ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. Game with Windows ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. Get Ideas Here! ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
