How do you keep all your local machine settings when you change your login?

[LawyerRon]

OS is XP Pro.

How do you keep all your local machine settings when you change your login?

One of our users has been logging into his local machine only for about a year and of course has many settings he requires. We now must change his login so he logs into our domain.

I know how to do the domain login part, but when he logs into the domain, all his settings go back to the Windows XP default settings. How do we copy over all his old settings so everything is the same when he logs into the domain?

[fredwest]

Hi Ron,
I'm not an expert here but I know (think) is has to do with the NTUSER file on the local machine.

This file is a critical (with a capital C) file for user profiles.

Browse to 'Documents & Settings' on the users PC and locate the user required. Make sure that system files are visible. Single click on the user in question and in the right pane you should see a file called 'NTUSER' with no extension. Copy this file to the domain server profile for the user. Get the user to log out/in after this is done and the local profile that he/she had should now be pulled down with the domain log in.

Again, I'm no expert here but this is what I'd do to start with.

HTH

[cobra]

log in as local administrator,
copy everything in his "old local" profile folder, into the new "domain profile" folder
works like a charm, keeps all settings...
I would clear temp internet files before I do it, sometimes it takes a long time if you don't.
oh ya,
and be sure to make all files visible....as in show hidden/system files...

[LawyerRon]

Thanks Cobra! BTW, good to see Fred back again.

[fredwest]

Hi guys,
Well I wasn't too far off the beaten track anyway! Thanks Cobra for the nitty gritty. Cobra, would what I suggested have worked though..?

Ron, sometimes I become a bit of a technophobe (is that a word?) and avoid this place cos it all gets 'just too techy' sometimes.

Also as busy as hell in work and just don't have the time most of the time!

Anyways, enough of me moaning. Nice to be back and have TIME to be back!!

[cobra]

Originally posted by fredwest Hi guys, Well I wasn't too far off the beaten track anyway! Thanks Cobra for the nitty gritty. Cobra, would what I suggested have worked though..? Ron, sometimes I become a bit of a technophobe (is that a word?) and avoid this place cos it all gets 'just too techy' sometimes. Also as busy as hell in work and just don't have the time most of the time! Anyways, enough of me moaning. Nice to be back and have TIME to be back!!

Fred, I am not sure, I always copied the entire folder to keep ALL settings, background/email/internet settings/favorites...
Try it and let me know