Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- moving_profiles_xp_vista [2017/08/18 15:46] – [Moving Profiles (XP/VISTA)] chris
+++ moving_profiles_xp_vista [2017/08/18 15:51] (current) – chris
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 This trick is also used to re-associate a domain profile to a local user account, and it works to move a profile from one domain to another.
-  - Ordered List Item After successfully logging in as your new user, immediately log out and log back in as the local machine administrator.\\
+  - Ordered List Item 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\<SID number>// and the key is called **ProfileImagePath**. The string will look like **?%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\?**
+  - 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\<SID number>//** and the key is called **ProfileImagePath**. The string will look like **?%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\?** \\ \\
-  - 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 files visible), and load this file. The NTUSER.DAT file will be found in the new profile folder - the one you moved. Regedit will prompt for a name. Type anything for the name as this is just the subkey that the user?s registry hive will appear under.\\
+  - Then go into regedit, highlight **HKEY_USERS**, and go to **File\load hive**, then find the users **NTUSER.DAT** (ensure you have hidden files visible), and load this file. The **NTUSER.DAT** file will be found in the new profile folder - the one you moved. Regedit will prompt for a name. Type anything for the name as this is just the subkey that the user's registry hive will appear under.\\ \\
-  - 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 sub-key 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).\\ \\
-  - 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.
 Enjoy,
-Your ArtIT Team
+**Your ArtIT Team**
 \\
 \\
 **[[windows|BACK]]**