PC Review


Reply
Thread Tools Rate Thread

Cloning a user?

 
 
Pheasant PluckerŪ
Guest
Posts: n/a
 
      24th Aug 2008
Hi there,

I wonder if some kind soul could help please?

I have a bunch of computers on my home network with various usernames such
as Administrator, Admin and some using my own name.

As I use RDP to zoom around my network both locally & remotely I would like
to standardise on the username to make it easy to remember which computer
has which username.

For example my MediaCenter PC was originally setup with a default account of
Administrator and all of my program settings, preferences, folders etc are
defined as such.

Now if I setup a new user (my name for example) I am going to lose all kinds
of things as detailed above including probably the most important one of all
my mailbox.

How can I setup another user account that has *EXACTLY* the same settings,
preferences, folders, mailbox etc. etc as the existing Administrator
account?

I know in the past I have copied the contents of the main users Local
Settings across but certain things such as mailbox, folders, permissions
etc. seem to have got lost in translation.

Even though most of it seemed to work the default document folders for
example were still called Administrator despite the user having a new name.

Is this even possible?

--
Thanks & regards,
-=pp=-



 
Reply With Quote
 
 
 
 
David H. Lipman
Guest
Posts: n/a
 
      24th Aug 2008
From: "Pheasant PluckerŪ" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| Hi there,

| I wonder if some kind soul could help please?

| I have a bunch of computers on my home network with various usernames such
| as Administrator, Admin and some using my own name.

| As I use RDP to zoom around my network both locally & remotely I would like
| to standardise on the username to make it easy to remember which computer
| has which username.

| For example my MediaCenter PC was originally setup with a default account of
| Administrator and all of my program settings, preferences, folders etc are
| defined as such.

| Now if I setup a new user (my name for example) I am going to lose all kinds
| of things as detailed above including probably the most important one of all
| my mailbox.

| How can I setup another user account that has *EXACTLY* the same settings,
| preferences, folders, mailbox etc. etc as the existing Administrator
| account?

| I know in the past I have copied the contents of the main users Local
| Settings across but certain things such as mailbox, folders, permissions
| etc. seem to have got lost in translation.

| Even though most of it seemed to work the default document folders for
| example were still called Administrator despite the user having a new name.

| Is this even possible?

| --
| Thanks & regards,
| -=pp=-

Logon as a user with administrative rights. but no the adminitrator account.

Unhide the profile; C:\Documents and Settings\Default User

Right-Click on "My Computer" and choose "Avanced" the "User Profiles --> settings.
Highlight the "Administratrator" account and choose "Copy to"
Browse to; C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
The choose "Ok"


Now when a new account is created such as "John", John's account will have the same
profile settings that the Administrator's account had after John logs on.



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


 
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
User cloning between PCs Bill G. Windows Vista Networking 0 9th Jun 2007 08:03 PM
W2K user cloning? Patrick Westenberg Windows Networking 1 17th Jul 2004 05:20 PM
Cloning a User Doug Kanter Windows XP General 6 15th Jun 2004 02:57 AM
Re: Cloning a User ~Mel~ Windows XP General 0 14th Jun 2004 07:42 PM
Cloning a user Howard Kaikow Microsoft Windows 2000 3 10th Jun 2004 04:42 AM


Features
 

Advertising
 

Newsgroups
 


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:33 PM.