Not really sure how to call it, but anyway. Let's say I create a new account and I want it to draw settings (deskpots, personal files etc - basically everything) from another already existing one. In win XP it can be done through regedit Start->run->regedit and then HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList There's a list of profiles where you need to find the ProfileImagePath that leads to the folder of account you want to change (entries look like this: %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Meee ) Now just change it to the path of account you want to get settings from and relog (if you're doing it from the new account). There, you get (almost) all settings from the old account on the new one. Now the problem is, as always, Vista. While all this can be done just as well as on XP (only the path is C:\Users\Meee ), it doesn't draw the settings at all. Actually it screws up everything and you end up with temporary profile that resets everytime you turn off your PC - this can be undone though. Any ideas on how to do that other way?
regedit? I think you are mking it to complicated. Go into user acount settings and click on the account then copy it then go into My documents of the old acount and copy the contents to the new account
I thought of that too, it's just that my idea, as complicated as may sound, didn't involve hours of moving stuff around folders
You must have alot of stuff Remember just copy My documents no need to go any deeper it should coppy everything higher on the tree. After that goget something to eat while it copies
It's not for me, but yeah there's a lot of stuff and there's no space to actually copy it - as in double the space already taken by documents. But that's beside the point. By the way, this says I'm not supposed to move three of the files there, does it apply?
I would do like BoP, works great, and it doesnt take so long (hmm, perhaps because my harddisk is 300mb/s).
