Copying user profiles in windows? (1 Viewer)

[Andrew_A_Paul]

Has anyone ever copied profiles in XP? I know how to do it, and have done it, but for some reason no matter who I log in as it will not let me copy the profile from the user name I use. Anyone have an idea of why this may be? Thanks.

 

[SethH]

Are you logging in as an administrator at all? Only an Admin has permission to mess with user names.

 

[Andrew_A_Paul]

Ok, heres what i have. Me as the person who set up the computer after a windows install, so i AM an admin. there is the admin account obviously, and then theres the guest account.

If i want to try and copy MY account to a different user i log in under the admin account and go to the profile settings, if i highlight my user account it greys out the "copy to" button.


I can log on as MY account (at least im 99.9% sure this is how i did it) and copy the admin profile to my guest account and the settings take on the guest account (desktop items, icons and such).


Any thoughts on this? Thanks!!

 

[Patrick Sun]

Perhaps you need to add the "guest" user to the administrator group temporarily for the user profile to be copied from the "admin" profile to the "guest" profile.