thanks I will give this a try
At 05:28 PM 2/14/2010, you wrote:
This worked for me:
Copy files to the new user profile
1. Log on as a user other than the user whose profile you are
copying files to or from.
2. In Windows Explorer, click Tools, click Folder Options, click
the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, click to clear
the Hide protected operating system files check box, and then click OK.
3. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\Old_Username folder,
where C is the drive on which Windows XP is installed, and
Old_Username is the name of the profile you want to copy user data from.
4. Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file
and subfolder in this folder, except the following files:
* Ntuser.dat
* Ntuser.dat.log
* Ntuser.ini
5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
6. Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\New_Username folder,
where C is the drive on which Windows XP is installed, and
New_Username is the name of the user profile that you created in
the "Create a New User Profile" section.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.
8. Log off the computer, and then log on as the new user.
Note You must import your e-mail messages and addresses to
the new user profile before you delete the old profile. For more
information, click the following article number to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
313055 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055/ ) Mail
folders, address book, and e-mail messages are missing after you
upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP
Steve
On 2/14/2010 7:55 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I have a XP PRO setup. I have been running it as The Administrator.
Now I want to make some changes so that I have different users with
different desktops for different jobs. I intend to use Fast User
Switching to go from one setup to another. Creating the new users
was no problem.However, I wanted to be able to Fast switch from
these new users back to the Administrator account I already have,
with its's profile, programs, settings etc allready setup in place.
Of course, Windows won't let me do this. THE Administrator account
does not appear in Fast User Switch so I had to create another user
account but with Administrative privileges in order for Windows to
show such an account in the User Fast Switch. So now I have THE
Administrators account with all my settings. I have two new basic
users with desktops and profiles setup for particular jobs, and I
have a new user account = admin with administrative privileges that
does appear in Fast User Switch.
I do not want to spend all the time it would take to setup the
new admin account as a clone of THE Administrator account. I just
want to copy the profile stuff over but it seems that windows
won't allow me to do this from System Properties\Advanced
Tab\Settings button\Administrator\Copy to button
The Administrator account the <copy To> button, and the Delete
button are greyed out. Is there any way to accomplish a copying of
the Administrators profile to another user with administrative
privileges account. Thanks
