Converting Domain user to Workgroup

There is no other way than to create a new account. You cannot reuse the AD one, as that has AD-specific GUID (SID) identifying it as the correct domain account.
So ProfWiz does it correct, and it is the best tool to do it.

It's not true that ProfWiz "redirect all the folders to the other accounts directories". It just changes the SID and adjusts privileges on the profile folder, if locally stored. That, of course, cannot work that way with romaing profiles, but I guess you are not talking about that?

It is easy to point a user to existing profile domain or otherwise.
You can link more than one user to a profile

1. Login with admin user (not one of the users)
2. Open Regedit
3. Load hive, browse to original profile, select NTUSER.DAT (not NTUSER.DAT.LOG) and type a name
4. Open permissions to the name you gave and give new account full control and force inheritance
5. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Each key here is associated with a user account on this computer. Go through each key and look at the "ProfileImagePath" string. Find the one that is for the profile you get when logging into original account (usually username.computername)
6. Change it to original profile path
7. Open Explorer
8. Browse to original profile
9. Open permissions and give new account full control and force inheritance
10. Restart and log in with your account

Profwiz is able to do the profile migration the way you want to, but it's an advanced feature that you have to pay for. The Personal addition only creates symbolic links between the Domain user's profile and the new local user's profile. The Professional and Corporate licenses for Profile Wizard will give you greater control over how things function. The free version is very feature limited.

@Adam: Where did you get that Profwiz uses symbolic links?

@Shaun in my experience after I have run Profwiz when I go into the new profiles "libraries" like My documents, etc, they are actually the directories within the local domain profile and not the directories in the current profile

There is no such thing as a domain or local profile. You are just seeing the original profile path which stays the same because it is just changing
ProfileImagePath in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList after setting permissions. It does not use symlinks

So when I make the local profile let's say it's C:\User\Bob
And the domain profile was C:\User\Bob.local

On the local account my documents is c:\user\bob\documents but after I run profwiz when I select "my documents" it no longer goes to c:\user\bob\documents it now redirects to c:\user\bob.local\documents. So for someone like me that sometimes navigates manually to my documents directory I am going to go to the \bob\documents directory and anything I put there will not show up when i click the "my documents" library because it's pointing to the other folder set.

Does that make sense? If I am missing something here I apologize, what you said may be correct I am just speaking from what I see. Prof wiz makes that new profile with it's own documents, pictures, etc but its actually pointing to the previous domain login's file paths thats how the desktop, documents, pictures, etc come over to the new account. I always thought it was moving the files but its not its just redirecting.

Your whole profile is c:\user\bob.local. You can confirm this by running

SET USERPROFILE

Select allOpen in new window

The empty profile C:\User\Bob can be deleted. This will prevent this confusion.

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