Copy local account?

[Teamaker]

One of our laptop users has admin rights over their laptop we would like to change that to power user. At the moment they log on as local administrator, is there a way to copy all of their documents and settings to a new account that we create (an account migration tool mabe).

Thanks.

!!A good cup of Tetley keeps the madness at bay!!

 

[gpalmer711]

You could always set up a new administrator user and change his administrator login to a power user.

I do not know of any user migration tools, however as far as I know all of the individual users setting would be found within

C:\documants and settings\username

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry

As a Hunch you could try.

If you copy the contents of the username folder for administrator into the new folder.

And export the whole HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the administrator and import it when logged in as the new user that might do it???

Or course it is a lot of messing around in the registry so make sure you have aback up and a good system restore point before attempting it.




Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

Logon as Administrator, and not the username being used now.

. Change the Default username to Power User instead of a member of the local Administrator group;
. Add a new password to "Administrator" as username

To do these steps you do not use the Control Panel applet Users. Use Computer Management, Users and Groups, Users to make the change in assignment.

 

[bcastner]

Note: to change the Administrator password, (after changing the group assignment of username) Start, Run, control userpasswords2

The second tab, bottom, will let you add a new password for Administrator.

 

[Teamaker]

Tyey are using the local admin account already.

!!A good cup of Tetley keeps the madness at bay!!

 

[bcastner]

Teamaker,

There is always a local admin account with the username Administrator.

When installed a second account is added with whatever default username was provided. This is the default user account, which is what they are using.

It is this account that you remove from the Administrators Group and add to the Power Users Group using Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Users and Groups, Users, and right-clicking the username and selecting properties.