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I travel a lot and happen to be changing domain (LAN) all the time, I upgraded the Win98SE on my notebook to Win2k Pro and anytime, I reconfigure my notebook to join another domain, I am not able to load my profile, the system sets a new profile forme, and I loose my desktop setting amd more importnatly my emails in Outlook Express as I have to set it up all again. I always get my profile back anytime I log in when I return, due to my travel schedule I have to be changing LAN domains which areabout 6 different networks. There are all NT Servers. How do I get my profile to move along when I change join a new domain or LAN????
PLEASE HELP !!!! as this is killing me, I am not able to do anything when it comes to mails etc and my desktop becomes disorganised.
P.S. My profile only comes when I log into my home LAN not even when I log into the Local domain on the Win2k pro notebook.

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by cportman

Windows 2000 stores profiles for user accounts. Each time you change domains it creates another profile.

Roaming profiles won't help you because you are changing domains.

As far as the emails go, i would install outlook and have a .pst file that was not stored in My Documents.

The only other way to do this is to copy your profile settings each time you change domains. This is really not recomended.

good luck
cp

by ryan4x4

*The following material is excerpted from Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q184077, dated Feb. 6, 2001.

The secret is a little-known Registry setting in Windows 2000 and Windows NT that determines where your machine finds the file that contains all this stuff. By making both your office log-in and your laptop log-in use the same file, any changes you make to your settings and any programs you install will be reflected wherever you may roam. The same is true if you switch from an old domain to a new domain.

The procedure basically involves three steps:
* Create a new local user. By logging on as this new user and then logging off, you've created a default local profile.
* Find your user account. Log on as an administrator and locatethe account you created in the C:\Winnt\Profiles folder. A subfolder with a name like myname.000 should be present. Change the permissions so your local account can access the profile.
* Change the path to your profile. The Registry key that contains the information about each profile is stored at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. Edit the value of ProfileImagePath so that your user account points to the desired profile.

Hope this helps, I got thisinformation the other day in an e-mail.
Ryan

by dindome

The OS I have is Windows 2000 pro, I cannot find the folder also, secondly the Knowledge base page cannot be found...

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