Transferring data is a waste of your time. I've done this a thousand times. All you need to do is this edit one registry setting. Check it:
1. Make note of the old user's physical profile path (in \Documents and Settings or \Users) This will be the %userprofile% environment variable if you're a command line junkie.
2. Create the new user's domain profile on the workstation and login. Make note of the physical directory of the NEW DOMAIN user's profile path (again, %userprofile%)
3. Log off and on to a local administrator account, open REGEDIT and go here:
Code:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{[I][B]GUID[/B][/I]}
Where
GUID is the identifier for the new domain profile. You can easily determine which it is by looking at the value of
ProfileImagePath and if it points to the new domain profile's directory, that's the one you want.
4. Now CHANGE the
ProfileImagePath value to point to the OLD user's local profile directory.
5. Log off and back on the domain user's profile and voila, everything is there as exactly it was before, shortcuts, user registry settings, files, whatever even down to the position/arrangement of the desktop icons.
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