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74012	2002-08-26 09:37:00	Is there a way to set up a new user account with the same settings as an existing account (including applications such as the Office Shortcut Bar)?	Olorin (1639)
74013	2002-08-26 10:25:00	Olorin, The following assumes you are using Windows XP PRO / Home in a home or home/office environment. The way I do this is from an administrator account create a new user (username and password etc) using Control Panel | User Accounts | Create a new account. Log off from the administrator account and then log in to the new account and then just log out (this sets up the new account using the default user profile only) Next log in to the administrator account and Rightclick My Computer select Properties. In the system properties select the Advanced tab. Click Settings in the User Profiles sections Next select the user account name you wish to Copy FROM Click the Copy To button Under the Copy Profile To section select the Browse button Browse to the directory where the 'old' user profile is to be copied to the New user account created earlier. (This should be in %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\{newusername} where %SYSTEMDRIVE% is the drive letter of your system where Windows XP was installed (often C:) Highlight (select) the {newusername} directory and click on OK Click on the Change button under the Permitted To Use section In the Select user or Group window click the Advanced button then the Find Now button Select the username (of the {newusername} account) and click OK Click OK again Click OK again Click Yes to the Confirm Copy settings. ( the profile is copied and access given to the {newusername} account) Once completed click OK to the User profiles window and OK to the System Properties window You have now created a user and copied the profile from an existing user with their settings to the new user and given access to the new user. Now log out and log in as the new user and check all is ok. Some minor tweaking may need to be done... Cheers, I hope you can follow all the above, Babe.	Babe Ruth (416)
74014	2002-09-08 14:51:00	Thanks Babe. That worked a treat. Although I found that you can't copy the profile of the user you are logged on as. I had to create another administrator account in order to copy the profile of my original administrator account. All this so I could have a limited account to use as advised by microshit themselves. You'd think microshit would have given users a simpler way to do this, say with a wizard or something.	Olorin (1639)
74015	2002-09-08 15:06:00	Is it just me or are the user account options to limited in XP.	-=JM=- (16)
74016	2002-09-09 12:17:00	Nope.	Olorin (1639)
74017	2002-09-10 06:11:00	JM, let me make two assumptions... 1) You meant that they are too limited, and 2) you haven't done the following.. Start> Run... type gpedit.msc and enter, then User configuration... Have a field day. G P	Graham Petrie (449)
74018	2002-09-10 09:57:00	Thanks Graham I hadn't really had too much of a look around before but that looks as if it should do the trick when I need it. My computer is only a single user machine but once we get more RAM in the family comp I'd like to put XP onto it. But I first thought that with the two different user levels, Administrator and Limited. There should be somewhere in between. But that gpedit.msc looks as if it should do the trick.	-=JM=- (16)
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