Divorce from a DOMAIN

[Jive Dadson]

Help! Please.

I've got a computer that I've been using on a domain at work. The
computer and I are moving on. I have been using a log-in account that
is associated with the domain. I cannot figure out how to divorce
myself from the domain and retain all my settings. Woe. Major woe.

I set up a new account that's associated with the computer only, not the
domain. I followed some directions I found for using My
computer/properties/advanced/user profiles/settings to copy my "profile"
to the new account. I did that while logged on as local Administrator
as instructed. It seemed to copy the whole "Documents and Settings"
directory for the old account, 10.3 Gigabytes worth! It took forever.
But when I logged on to the new account, my desktop was all wrong -
wrong icons, wrong background, wrong sounds, wrong everything.

Is there any way out of this mess?

Jive

 

[Jive Dadson]

Ah ha. It's me again.

The copy utility copied all the stuff to 'Documents and Settings/Jive',
whereas the new account is apparently known as Jive.DADSON (where DADSON
is the name of the computer). When I changed the name of the copied
directory to "Documents and Settings/Jive.DADSON, things were much
better. Still, not everything is right.

Question: Did that utility do anything other than copy that directory
(to the wrong place)?

Question 2: Why is it that sometimes when you set up a new user account,
it calls it something like "Jive" and sometimes it's "Jive.DADSON"?

Big Question: Is there no way to have one "me" that I use regardless of
whether I'm on the work domain or just the computer. Having the
personal data and preferences all mixed up with the networking stuff is
just plain stupid.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Ah ha. It's me again.

The copy utility copied all the stuff to 'Documents and Settings/Jive',
whereas the new account is apparently known as Jive.DADSON (where DADSON
is the name of the computer). When I changed the name of the copied
directory to "Documents and Settings/Jive.DADSON, things were much
better. Still, not everything is right.

Question: Did that utility do anything other than copy that directory
(to the wrong place)?

Question 2: Why is it that sometimes when you set up a new user account,
it calls it something like "Jive" and sometimes it's "Jive.DADSON"?

Big Question: Is there no way to have one "me" that I use regardless of
whether I'm on the work domain or just the computer. Having the
personal data and preferences all mixed up with the networking stuff is
just plain stupid.

It's necessary to login using the new account at least once, in order
to create the profile structure. It sounds like to copied the original
files to a folder structure that had not yet been created, so the copy
process created the C:\Documents and Settings\Jive folders. Then when
you logged in using the local "Jive" account, Windows found that name
already in use and so created the "Jive.MADESN" profile.


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Bruce Chambers

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