Moving Document/Settings from one account to another

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~~~ .NET Ed ~~~

Hi,
Some time ago Mr. Ferguson suggested I create a new local account on my
machine because the one I normally use appears to have suffered some brain
damage (does not remember settings). I have indeed confirmed that only this
account suffers this problem, so the path suggested seems appropriate.

This is an NTFS partition, so I have given read rights on the current user
account to the new account in order to be able to browse through its
directories (Documents & Settings) and move them to the new account.

I would like to know what is the best way to perform this operation without
losing data, I am particularly concerned about the following:

- Certificates (X.509)
- Internet Explorer settings/bookmarks
- Settings of other installed applications
- Archived Outlook (not Outlook Express) emails
- Current Outlook email account settings

Also, is it possible to relocate the entire Documents and Settings\My User
Account to another partition (I like to keep the main partition only for
software), or can that only be done for My Documents? My computer is on a
local network but NOT attached to a domain.

And perhaps anything else I might have missed. Please advise.

Thx,
EMilio
 
TweakXP.com - Performance Tweaks:
http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx

TweakXP might help move the docs and settings, but the best way to have them
on another drive is to establish that during setup, with an unattend.txt
Q155197 - HOWTO Unattended Setup Parameters for Unattend.txt File:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q155197


The best copy of a Profile that I know, is the FAST wizard.
Save settings and data with the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST
wizard): Go To: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
 
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