How Do I Merge a Local and Domain User Account
October 9, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Image: Screen capture from Windows XP Pro by Jason Bean
I’ve been running now on my recently wiped and refreshed laptop. Everything is going well except for one thing. I probably should have connected the laptop to my domain before doing just about anything else.
You see now, I’ve got all these personalized settings. Applications installed. Preferences configured, etc., etc., but they’re all setup on my local computer user login.
When I connected to the domain at work, all my preferences are useless on the new domain user that’s created.
My question is does anyone know of a safe and successful way of merging a local user account with a domain user account on the same machine? I tried a method I found online that including copying the user settings folders over each other and then editing the registry to point the old user to the new user with the new user’s unique system user ID. That didn’t work as planned.
Anyone else have some suggestions for me to try?
i feel for you… i upgraded moms pc to xp pro, and i can’t logon to domain because it doesn’t have her personal settings, i need a way to transfer them. And yes im pc tech in alot of other places except networking, just sayn that considering i used the word mom in a tech blog…
i would much appreciate this too
I understand, it sounds like you’re the alpha-Geek in the family as well. I was following you completely!