Comments on: move a windows user profile

By: casey

casey — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:57:51 +0000

I’ve been following your steps, trying to transfer a profile from an old laptop to a new one. Both are running vista. I didn’t have the systems networked, so i put the hard drive from the new pc into the old one as a secondary drive. I copied the reg file, then the profile. I then moved the hard drive back into the new pc. I logged in under a different account. I updated the registry, but i the new pc isn’t recognizing the new profile. Any idea’s?

By: Danielp

Danielp — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:08:51 +0000

10x,very helpful
is there a posibility to move groups
I have a situation like this where I need to move all users and groups to another xp machine.
thanks

By: bbowers

bbowers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0000

I think it works moving from 2k to xp, I’m pretty sure I’ve done it before, but it’s been a while. Try it by creating a dummy profile in 2k and moving it the same way. Since it’s a user profile, it won’t affect other users on the destination PC, and you could always just login as a different user and delete it if it fails.

By: bbowers

bbowers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:55:38 +0000

yes, it works perfectly in a domain

By: eddie o

eddie o — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:21:58 +0000

Will it work within a domain?

By: Ed Mulligan

Ed Mulligan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:08:00 +0000

Will this work between W2K and XP?