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| We used this trick to re-associate a domain profile to a local user account, and it works to move a profile from one domain to another. | We used this trick to re-associate a domain profile to a local user account, and it works to move a profile from one domain to another. | ||
| - | - After successfully logging in as your new user, immediately log out and log back in as the local machine administrator.\\ | + | - After successfully logging in as your new user, immediately log out and log back in as the local machine administrator.\\ \\ |
| - | - Go to Documents and Settings and you?ll see two profile folders with similar names. One will probably have .DOMAIN appended to the end. This is the new profile.\\ | + | - Go to **Documents and Settings** and you'll see two profile folders with similar names. One will probably have **.DOMAIN** appended to the end. This is the new profile.\\ \\ |
| - | - Move the new profile folder to another location. Remember where it is and what it?s called.\\ | + | - Move the new profile folder to another location. Remember where it is and what it's called.\\ \\ |
| - | - Add the new user account to the local administrators group on the computer.\\ | + | - Add the new user account to the local administrators group on the computer.\\ \\ |
| - | - Go Start\Run and type regedit then click OK.\\ | + | - Go **Start\Run** and type **regedit** then click **OK**.\\ \\ |
| - | - Choose Edit\Find from the menu and type the name of the folder you just moved. It?ll be somewhere like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\< | + | - Choose |
| - | - Change the value of this key to the path of your original profile folder.\\ | + | - Change the value of this key to the path of your original profile folder.\\ \\ |
| - | - Then go into regedit, highlight HKEY_USERS, and go to File\load hive, then find the users NTUSER.DAT (ensure you have hidden | + | - Then go into **regedit**, highlight |
| - | - Then right-click on that subkey and choose Permissions. You will see the old SID which can no longer be resolved to a user account name because it belongs to the old domain, to which the machine is no longer joined. Delete that SID, and add the user again from the new domain with full permissions. Then unload the hive from the file menu (otherwise the file will be locked/in use and you won?t be able to use it).\\ | + | - Then right-click on that subkey and choose |
| - | - Also remove the old SID and add the new user (same user, but new SID, so a new user as far as Windows is concerned) as the owner or full-permissions for \documents and settings\username. Do all of this while logged in as a domain administrator of the new domain.\\ | + | - Also remove the old SID and add the new user (same user, but new SID, so a new user as far as Windows is concerned) as the **owner** or **full-permissions** for **\documents and settings\username**. Do all of this while logged in as a **domain administrator** of the new domain.\\ \\ |
| - Now reboot and log in as the user. All the settings will be there as before. | - Now reboot and log in as the user. All the settings will be there as before. | ||
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| + | To use a tool wich currently works under XP, Windows7, Windows8 and Windows10, please download the [[http:// | ||
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| Enjoy, | Enjoy, | ||
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