Changing profiles

fire_munki

fire_munki

fire_munki

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Hi,
I've got my local W7 profile on my machine with chrome, thunderbird and saved files on it.
I've just got it to connect to my new domain on the profile created there. When i log into this it obviously doesn't have my programs or data.
Is there a simple way to change or copy my local profile over to the AD one so I can log on to the network and still have everything I've got installed?
 
Yes there is a registry key you can change to point your new profile at your old profiles folder.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Locate your new profile (will reference sid) and change the profileimagepath value.
 
They will both update as you are only pointing to a folder, you might run into some security clashes though depending on how things are configured.
 
Just manually copy the appdata roaming and local folders for the specific software that you want to migrate. Make sure the software is closed when you do it. If you run in to problems then you might need to export and import the hkeycurrentuser/software/SOFTWARENAME registry key to the other profile. But usually that won't be required. but for some software it will be.

Some times for specific software you have to name the folder of the old profile to the name of the new one. Firefox works like that. profile folders are called random names like "asd8sd787d" so you haev to rename that to "asd8sd787d.old" in the new profile and then copy over your old profile folder and rename it to "asd8sd787d"
 
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I tried copying everying thing from my local folder over originally, this got my background over but not things like chrome or skype or anything else like that.
Might have missed the appsdata but I tried to copy the entire user folder contents over.
 
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