Problem after copying a user profile apagano 08.07.2007 23:42:02 I'm using WindowsXP Professional with all the updates installed on a Panasonic Laptop. I copied my user profile from the user account I usually use to a second account using the procedure offered from the Microsoft Knowledge Base. The copy went without a hitch. I shut down the computer and rebooted into the second account. The desktop in the second user account looked like my usual account, everything from My Documents was mirrored fine, and my favorties in IE were all there. However almost none of the programs that usually start up and appear in the system tray like my antivirus and firewall started up. And a few of the programs with shortcuts on the desktop fail to launch when double clicked reporting "cannot install registry data." I must have done something wrong when copying the profile or there are other steps to the procedure. Any help would be appreciated. Tony

Re: Problem after copying a user profile "SingaporeWebDesign" <SingaporeWebDesign_ng2[ at ]bootstrike.com> 09.07.2007 10:41:10 Hello, When copying the User Profile, did you take care not to copy the NTUSER.DAT, NTUSER.DAT.LOG and NTUSER.INI file as stated in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151? -- Singapore Website Design http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ Singapore Web Hosting http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html Windows XP FAQ "apagano" <apagano[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A0691326-23BE-4496-8CBC-E36B3E7A842C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I'm using WindowsXP Professional with all the updates installed on a > Panasonic Laptop. I copied my user profile from the user account I > usually > use to a second account using the procedure offered from the Microsoft > Knowledge Base. The copy went without a hitch. I shut down the computer > and > rebooted into the second account. > > The desktop in the second user account looked like my usual account, > everything from My Documents was mirrored fine, and my favorties in IE > were > all there. However almost none of the programs that usually start up and > appear in the system tray like my antivirus and firewall started up. And > a > few of the programs with shortcuts on the desktop fail to launch when > double > clicked reporting "cannot install registry data." > > I must have done something wrong when copying the profile or there are > other > steps to the procedure. Any help would be appreciated. > > Tony

Re: Problem after copying a user profile apagano 09.07.2007 11:22:01 The link you reference provides instructions for copying data from a corrupted profile to a new profile. This isn't my situation. Neither the profile I'm copying nor the new profile are corrupted. I just wanted to mirror a good profile with all the needed applications to a second user account. "SingaporeWebDesign" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > When copying the User Profile, did you take care not to copy the NTUSER.DAT, > NTUSER.DAT.LOG and NTUSER.INI file as stated in > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151? > > -- > Singapore Website Design > http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ > Singapore Web Hosting > http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html > Windows XP FAQ > > "apagano" <apagano[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:A0691326-23BE-4496-8CBC-E36B3E7A842C[ at ]microsoft.com... > > I'm using WindowsXP Professional with all the updates installed on a > > Panasonic Laptop. I copied my user profile from the user account I > > usually > > use to a second account using the procedure offered from the Microsoft > > Knowledge Base. The copy went without a hitch. I shut down the computer > > and > > rebooted into the second account. > > > > The desktop in the second user account looked like my usual account, > > everything from My Documents was mirrored fine, and my favorties in IE > > were > > all there. However almost none of the programs that usually start up and > > appear in the system tray like my antivirus and firewall started up. And > > a > > few of the programs with shortcuts on the desktop fail to launch when > > double > > clicked reporting "cannot install registry data." > > > > I must have done something wrong when copying the profile or there are > > other > > steps to the procedure. Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Tony > > >