Ryan said:
Torgeir Bakken wrote
I'm not as accomlished as you. This method seems to be
straight forward, except I have little experience in
Registry. Please tell me how to do it in detail?
Hi
1)
Log on with your new user.
2)
Determine the user profile path by e.g. opening a command prompt
(Start/Run => cmd.exe).
In the command prompt, type:
set USERPROFILE
An example:
C:\>set USERPROFILE
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\joe.domain
The above is the new profile path you got that you don't want to keep.
You need to determine what was the old user's profile path, use e.g.
Explorer to look in the subfolders at "C:\Documents and Settings"
(look at file dates if you are unsure what folder is the old one).
In this example, I see that the old path was:
C:\Documents and Settings\joe
3)
Start regedit.exe.
Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT \CurrentVersion\ProfileList
You will find several different sub keys with long SID names, like
this example:
S-1-5-21-3358830704-3276242011-182794036-1000
It is one for each user.
Under each of those, you fill find a ProfileImagePath value where the
data points to the user's profile folder.
Look for the one that points to your new profile
(C:\Documents and Settings\joe.domain in this example).
When you have found it, change the data in the value ProfileImagePath
from pointing to new profile (...\joe.domain) to the old one (...\joe).
Now you can do a reboot, and when you log on again (with the new user),
you should have your old profile back. Note that if the new user is
not a local administrator, you would need to look into the permission
part in my first post.
