User profiles Copy To button grayed out

Plz check your Group Policy you may have local profiles disabled in your GPO..
So if you have roaming profiles enabled instead..

no its not the GPO...I can take it out of the OU its in (which has a policy) and put it in one that does not get affected by a GPO and its doing the same thing.

Your on a Active Directory domain I take it?

On the machine where you are having problems make sure that the Domain Admin group is added to the Local Administrators group.

START | RUN | LUSRMGR.MSC

 Double click on groups and then open the administrators group. If the Domain Admin group or the group that your a member of isn't in this group you won't be able to copy the profile. At least I think this is the case.

Well try Gemartis option now

nope....I am the domain admin, and the domain admins, administrators, (my username) and the local admin are all listed as administrators on this machine.

I can create other user profiles on the machine and copy them with no problem... just this one profile where I have made all my changes.....this is wierd.

I have to ask this...

Are you logged into that profile?

You can't copy an active profile.

Also, make sure that the local Administrators Group has Full Control on the profile folder and it gets inherited to the child files and folders.

:)

no, not logged into the profile I want to copy. admin group (local) has full control on the folder and all child objects.

Does the profile name contain any illegal characters or a trailing blank?

I figured it out.....thanks anyway.

oh almost forgot, that while none of the solutions solved MY SPECIFIC issue.....gemarti's response is the correct way that I use on other machines....this one however was acting with a mind of its own and required some slapping around.

I have just spent several hours being frustrated by what sound like a similar issue.

(We want to copy user profiles, so initially users will have a common set-up.  - But more importantly, we need to copy the Outlook User Profiles for e-mail.  As we have c 25 different ones -  Outlook pst files being stored on a network.
It is bad enough having to key all these in once, let alone copy them for every user.)

I was also puzzled at why the Copy (& Delete) buttons stubbonly remained greyed-out.  - Tried several things, without much success, until I hit on the fix :
You need to do a full shut-down & cold re-boot.  After you have done this this all the Admin level accounts (except the one you are using as a log-in for the copy operation) will no longer have greyed-out "Copy" boxes. ...
Simple but frustrating - Thanks Microsoft !

By the way all the Outlook Mail Profiles copy across to new users without problem !

well I'll be.....you're right.

Brilliant! Thanks LascarUK!

COLD BOOT  ....Thanks

See this KB article from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894232/en-us

COLD BOOT worked for me (after the 2nd try), but I also had to be plugged into the network at the time of boot.  How strange.  Thanks Microshaft.

None of those worked for me. The reason: I had installed HP SIM and this service was starting logged on as the account that was greyed out ;=)
So I changed the "log as" in "services" to "local system account" and the "copy to" button wasn't greyed out anymore.
Kind of make sense...

Thanks to private_dustbin.
In my case it was the SQL services that was started as the acount with the greyed out profile.
Changing the "Log On As" also was the ultimate solution for me.

Thanks HAAS, you were right about changing the "Log On As" for any services running under the user account that you are attempting to copy.  In my case, simply stopping the affected service worked.  Saved a full restart.