Cloning User Accounts??

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Bill Cabeceiras

Is it possible to setup a new user account that is an exact duplicate of one
that is all ready setup....with all the same settings and info, etc...?
 
Hey -

Thanks for the more detailed response! I'm still learning (hence the name).
I'm definitely learning from all this.

Newtechie
 
Hi Bill,
Open System in Control Panel. On the User Profiles tab, and under Profiles
stored on this computer, click the user profile you want to copy, and then
click Copy To.

In the Copy To dialog box, under Copy profile to, type the location for the
new profile, or click Browse to select the path.

Click Change to open the Choose User dialog box, click a new user from the
Names list, and then click Add. The new user name will appear in Add Name.
Click OK to add the user as a new user profile on your computer.

You must be logged on as an administrator to the local computer to copy
user profiles. To open a Control Panel item, click Start, point to Settings,
click Control Panel, and then double-click the appropriate icon.

You cannot copy the account you are currently logged in on. You must log
into another account.

If you create a new account, you must logon once before you copy another
account over top of it. Windows creates the user profile at logon, not at
account creation, and it will not use the copy you created before that first
logon, it will create a user.COMPUTERNAME folder instead.

To resolve this issue, verify that the user account is not logged on before
you try to copy its profile. If you are currently logged on as this user,
log off, log on again by using a different user account, and then copy the
profile.

If you are not logged on as the user account that you are trying to copy,
that account may be logged on in a different session (using Fast User
Switching).

To force that account to be logged off, start Task Manager, click the Users
tab, click the user account, and then click Logoff.

To work around this behavior, you can also create a user who has
administrative privileges, log on as that user, and then copy the profile of
the first user.

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