How to move settings from a domain account to a workgroup account?

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Guest

Hello
How to move settings from my former domain account to my new workgroup
account? I changed participation of my computer from a domain to a workgroup
and I cannot login using my domain account any more to transfer settings. The
Documents and settings folder contains my domain account folder.
 
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Drew Tognola

Dima,

I'm not positive but if you're an 'administrator' of the computer in
question, can't you just 'copy & paste' the contents of your domain account
folder into your new workgroup account? Worth a try.

Drew
 
G

Guest

Thanks for your reply.
It will ask me if I want to replace the existing contents. If I replace I
can lose some existing useful settings. How to prevent losing existing
setting of contents?
 
G

Guest

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Drew Tognola said:
Dima,

I'm not positive but if you're an 'administrator' of the computer in
question, can't you just 'copy & paste' the contents of your domain account
folder into your new workgroup account? Worth a try.

Drew
Click to expand...
 
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pcbutts1

You have to log in as a 3rd party then copy everything from your old profile
to your new one except 2 files, user.dat and ntuser.dat. You can also do it
from system properties>advanced>user profiles but that takes a long time to
complete.

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Guest

Thanks for your reply.
How to make sure that useful settings in my current profile will not be
overwritten?
There is not my former domain profile, but only 2 "Account Unknown" and 3
Local profiles in the system properties>advanced>user profiles. Which to
choose?
The "Copy to" commant is not available for the "Account Unknown" profiles.
There is not a domain
 
G

Guest

Outlook rules and others. Does the copying transfer all the setting that
Windows Transfer Wizard Transfers?
 

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