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Windows 2000 profile recovery

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by davem

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Until recently the User Administrator logged into a standalone (sometimes connected peer-to-peer to another standalone) Windows 2000 Pro system - Unique programs, shortcuts and settings configured for user "Administrator"

One day logging in as User "Administrator" I discover a completely different stripped down desktop - realizing that in documents and setting there is a new user "Administrator.win2000" (win2000 being the name of the Windows 2000 computer.

Obviously a new profile has been created, not sure how that happened - and usurped the old "Administrator" login/password but will not allow me access to the programs/shortcuts I setup in the old "Administrator" user environment - All old my data and shortcuts are present in the old
\Documents and Settings\Administrator
folders -

Question is how do I get all of that to work in the new
\Documents and Settings\Administrator.win2000 environment -

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by p.j.hutchison

First, you need get Ownership of the old folder (see Advanced under Security tab).
Then you can copy and paste the necessary files from the old profile into the relevant folders in the new folders using Windows Explorer.

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