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by lino767

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Hi,

User A used to log in to NT 4.0 server using user B's users name. I deleted user B's account and created user A account so that user A can use her own login name to logon. When user A log on using her own user name, she could not see the profile/preferences and paths she set up when she used user B's logon name. How can I copy user A's profile that was set up using user B's logon name to user A's own account?...The work station is W2k.

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by shmaltz

Right click my computer choose properties > User Profiles choose user b's profile click Copy to and choose the path where user a's profile is located. If you use roaming profiles then first delete user a's profile from the server and make sure that you copy user b's profile onto the path of the local profile of user a. By default the path to a local profile is C:\document and settings\%username%
you shuold select the username subfolder of user a to do the copy.

by shmaltz

The path to the local profile on Windows 2000 machine differs. Depending if this machine had a clean install then the path is as previously stated, if it was an upgrade of Windows NT then the profile path is: c:\winnt\profiles\%username%
I don't know where it is if you upgraded from WIN9x.

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