Change in User Account

[Chris]

I have a user who got married and changed her name. The
user requested I change her user account to reflect the
change. When I changed her account and she logs in with
the new account to my domain, it creates a new user
profile on the local machine. How can I make it so the
new account still has all her old profile setting like
Favorites, Desktop, user settings, etc. Is it possible
to rename the old profile to be the new one? Is there a
script to run to copy the old to the new? I am stuck. I
do not use roaming profiles. Please advise!!!!

 

[RA]

Create a new user with the correct name.
Right click on My Computer, go to Properties and click the Advanced tab,
click the settings button in User Profiles. Highlight the old profile and
click the Copy to button and navigate to the new user account. In the
Permitted to use section, click change and make the appropriate choices.

 

[Jeff]

Hi Chris,

I have a similiar situation, but its from changing
computers from workgroups to domain. When add the
computer from workgroup to a domain, the computer creates
a new account instead of using the workgroup account. A
MVP name Torgeir Bakken explained to me how to use the
original profile for the domain access, I`ll copy and past
what he told me, this should work for you.

Solution:

Here is what I just posted in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment:


1)
Log on with your new user.


2)
Determine the user profile path by e.g. opening a command
prompt
(Start/Run => cmd.exe).

In the command prompt, type:

set USERPROFILE

An example:

C:\>set USERPROFILE
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\joe.domain

The above is the new profile path you got that you don't
want to keep.

You need to determine what was the old user's profile
path, use e.g.
Explorer to look in the subfolders at "C:\Documents and
Settings"
(look at file dates if you are unsure what folder is the
old one).

In this example, I see that the old path was:
C:\Documents and Settings\joe


3)
Start regedit.exe.

Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

You will find several different sub keys with long SID
names, like
this example:

S-1-5-21-3358830704-3276242011-182794036-1000

It is one for each user.

Under each of those, you fill find a ProfileImagePath
value where the
data points to the user's profile folder.

Look for the one that points to your new profile
(C:\Documents and Settings\joe.domain in this example).

When you have found it, change the data in the value
ProfileImagePath
from pointing to new profile (...\joe.domain) to the old
one (...\joe).


I hope it works, if it does, thank Torgeir for it.

Jeff