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User Profiles under Windows XP, copy from existing account to a different account.

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Ok, got another one for you guys. Working on a domain with Small Business Server and a windows xp pro client. I set up a new user on the domain, all that went fine. Installed all the apps, configure Outlook to work with bot e-mail accounts. Everything went perfect and I was finished so I rebooted one last time. When I went to login in though, I noticed a problem. I was logging in to the domain on this computer under the wrong account. So, my question, I have a directory under Documents and Settings called Lorraine and I need to copy all these settings to the Liz directory. Now, I tried to do that under System Properties and Advanced tab, copy user profile to another profile, but it tells me it can't delete NTUSER.dat. Delete that directory and try again, yet if I delete the directory its not there for me to copy the Lorraine directory to. So, hod can I accomplish this (BTW, Liz logs into the domain as well as lorraine) on the local machine, move all the contents of the Lorraine user profile to the Liz user profile without re-setting up everything?

Thanks.
David
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Comment by blowfly
I have followed the above steps , the list box displays all the my current profiles from my new domain, but all profiles from my old domain are labeled as Account unknown. What is the reason for this?

My old domain was called Melb and my new domain is called VIC. When I transfered a PC to the new domain and copied the contents of the old profile to the new profile, many application like outlook stopped working.  I  don't know if it was my procedure of adding a new PC to a domain or what.

My procedure was to change the PC to the new domain, login as the new person. copy the persons profile from the Melb domain to the VIC domain. Once I copied the user profile across, certain Microsoft applications stopped working. Is there any reason for this?  Can anyone give me a better solution for copying user profiles across different domains.
 
 
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