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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / December 2006XP user profile
Somehow, the login I've been using for the past year was deleted from my XP Pro laptop. The user folder and all the settings are still there, but there is no login associated with it. How can I either: 1) recover the login that corresponds to these settings, or 2) copy all these settings to a new account I tried to copy the profile using the user accounts tools, but since the login is no longer valid, XP doesn't recognize the profile as one that can be copied. Ideas? hi there, As far as I know it isnt possible. What you can do is copy those items out of the old-users profile to the new one. But DO NOT DO THIS with the NTUSER.DAT file, this is linked to the 'Security ID' of the user which is unique and cant be moved. NT USER.DAT contains all the user settings in registry. There are ways to import these settings but this is far to complicated to explain. Before altering the new-users profile make a backup of the profile directory. Greetz, Mike > Somehow, the login I've been using for the past year was deleted from my XP > Pro laptop. The user folder and all the settings are still there, but there [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Ideas? Log on as Adminstrator. Rename the folder containing the user's existing profile Re-create the user-account. Log on as the user once, then off again. Log on as Administrator. Delete the folder created by logging-on as the user. Rename the profile folder back to the original name. If using NTFS, assign ownership to the folder and contents to the new user. Log on as the user, and all should be as it was. Worked like magic! Thanks Ian! > Log on as Adminstrator. > Rename the folder containing the user's existing profile [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > If using NTFS, assign ownership to the folder and contents to the new user. > Log on as the user, and all should be as it was. |
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