Switching stuff over to new admin

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Susan

Hi again,
I'm back with another question. I was having a problem with a program
that wouldn't work correctly when I was logged in a the main administrator.
With some help from a mailing list and through trial and error, I found that
if I made a new account as another admin the program worked correct. I'm
wondering now though since the 2nd admin setting works and the 1st one
obviously has a problem, can I move all my settings and such from the 1st
admin to the 2nd at one time or would I have to move it all bit by bit, or
can they be moved at all? When I logged in to the 2nd admin setting it was
just like when I first started my computer right out of the box, at least
for the look and sound settings, I didn't look to much to see what programs
and such were added to the 2nd admin.
I'm not familiar at all with Administrator logins and such so I'd
appreciate any help.

Thanks
Susan
 
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Susan said:
Hi again,
I'm back with another question. I was having a problem
with a program that wouldn't work correctly when I was
logged in a the main administrator. With some help from a
mailing list and through trial and error, I found that if I
made a new account as another admin the program worked
correct. I'm wondering now though since the 2nd admin
setting works and the 1st one obviously has a problem, can I
move all my settings and such from the 1st admin to the 2nd
at one time or would I have to move it all bit by bit, or
can they be moved at all? When I logged in to the 2nd admin
setting it was just like when I first started my computer
right out of the box, at least for the look and sound
settings, I didn't look to much to see what programs and
such were added to the 2nd admin. I'm not familiar at all
with Administrator logins and such so I'd appreciate any
help.
Thanks
Susan
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What you need to do is copy the files and folders from this
location,
C:\Documents and Settings\OldAccount
into this location
C:\Documents and Settings\NewAccount

Since you can't use either of these accounts to do this, you'll
either have to logon to the built-in Administrator account or
create a third admin account. I'd opt for creating another
admin account. You can delete it once the files are copied.

Here are a couple of web sites with more info:

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

How do I copy a user profile in Windows XP?
http://www.petri.co.il/copy_user_profiles_in_windows_xp.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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