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Message #:  3535892
Subject:  User Profiles
From: DrumminDean
Sent:  11/6/2009 12:17:45 PM

Please ignore my "Options."
Here's the scenario which I may have brought up a couple months ago...can't recall.
A Vista computer with one User Profile being used by the owner. The profile becomes corrupted causing various problems.
Creating a new user profile provides something of a "clean start" with none of the original user profile problems...and all programs and files are still available.
Is there a reasonably simple way to set things up so that the new user profile has access to the old profile's music downloads, pics and other stuff?
Simply deleting or removing the old profile will also remove files, right?
There's an option to save files when removing a profile. What happens to the files?
I've read of moving folders from old user profile to new one. That seems like a lot of work for somebody.

Mfr: Dell
Model: Inspiron
Type: Laptop
CPU: Centrino Duo
Installed RAM: ?
OS: XP
Disk Drives: 80GB


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Message #: 3535942 Subject: Re:User Profiles From: DrumminDean Sent: 11/6/2009 2:35:49 PM

A.	Thanks Berton but I think I have steered us wrong. What I was meant to be addressing was User "Accounts", not user profiles. I found this...among other things. http://vistasupport.mvps.org/delete_a_user_account.htm This states that... "Keeping the files enables windows to automatically save the contents of the desktop, documents, favourties, music, pictures and video folders that relate to this account." Right. Now what if you want all that stuff integrated into the new account which is taking the place of the old corrupt account? I believe that during the time I tried to devise a way of getting out of transferring all that stuff to the new account, I could have transferred all that stuff to the new account.

Message #: 3535904 Subject: Re:User Profiles From: Berton Sent: 11/6/2009 1:05:23 PM

A.	Try this: http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=936

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