Cloning a user?

[Pheasant Plucker®]

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?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Pheasant Plucker®" <[email protected]>

| 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.