Transferring a profile to another Windows 7 drive. Moving a user profile using standard Windows tools. How to transfer user folders to another local drive

Continuing the topic of saving SSD drives, today we will look at how to transfer the entire user profile, including the system appdata folder and all user folders, such as “Music”, “Downloads”, “Images” and “Documents”. This will help reduce the number of writes to the system drive, which theoretically extends the life of the SSD drive. And most importantly, it significantly saves precious space on the same SSD. An article with the second transfer method is also already available - transferring the Users folder during installation of the operating system.

For some reason Microsoft refused the ability to transfer profiles for client versions of its operating systems, starting with Windows Vista. I don’t know what this is connected with, but when you go to the “User Profiles” menu, you will see that the profile copy button is disabled.

But like many other restrictions imposed Microsoft, this can also be bypassed, do everything according to the instructions and you will succeed ;)

This article is suitable for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1. So, in order:

1) Log in under your administrator account.

2) Create a new folder to store your accounts; in my case it will look like this:

3) Next, you need to create a new user with administrator rights. To do this, go to “Control Panel” → “User Accounts” → “Adding and Removing User Accounts” → “Create an Account”. Enter any name, select “Administrator” and click “Create an account”:

4. Reboot the computer and log in as our new user:

5. Copy the folder with the profile of our main account. To do this, go to the path: C:\Users and copy the folder with the required user name to our new folder.

6. Next, go to the properties of both folders and go to the “Security” tab. Here we need to create in the folder on drive D all the same user groups as in the folder on drive C, and also give them the same access rights.

As you can see, you need to delete the “Authenticated” and “Users” groups, you also need to add the user Skesov.ru and the “HomeUsers” group.

In order to add or remove a user or group, you must click the "Edit" button. In the window that opens, select a user or group and click the “Delete” button or simply click the “Add” button to add a new group.

A window for selecting users and groups will open:

Click the "Advanced" button and in the new window on the right the "Search" button:

Select the desired group and click OK until only the “Group Permissions” window remains.

As a result, you should get a full copy of the rights of the child folder:

If everything matches, press the OK button to apply the change and move on to the next step.

7. When trying to remove/add a user, the system may display the following window:

We need to get around this, so we need to disable inheritance of rights for this folder. To do this, in the folder properties in the “Security” section, click the “Advanced” button:

In this window, click the “Change permissions” button and uncheck the “Add permissions inherited from parent objects” checkbox:

Click OK and answer the Windows security question “Delete” (although you can also “Add” - this will simply save the current groups and users, but will also allow you to change them):

We also click OK in the additional security settings window.

8. Open the registry. To do this, press the Win+R key combination and in the “Run” window that opens, write regedit and click OK. (You can also search the Start menu in Windows 7 or Vista by typing regedit)

For some reason, Microsoft has abandoned the ability to transfer profiles for client versions of its operating systems, starting with Windows Vista. I don’t know what this is connected with, but when you go to the “User Profiles” menu, you will see that the profile copy button is disabled.

But like many other restrictions imposed by Microsoft, this can also be bypassed, do everything according to the instructions and you will succeed ;)

This article is suitable for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1. So, in order:

1) Log in under your administrator account.

2) Create a new folder to store your accounts; in my case it will look like this:

3) Next, you need to create a new user with administrator rights. To do this, go to “Control Panel” → “User Accounts” → “Adding and Removing User Accounts” → “Create an Account”. Enter any name, select “Administrator” and click “Create an account”:

4. Reboot the computer and log in as our new user:

5. Copy the folder with the profile of our main account. To do this, go to the path: C:\Users and copy the folder with the required user name to our new folder.

6. Next, go to the properties of both folders and go to the “Security” tab. Here we need to create in the folder on drive D all the same user groups as in the folder on drive C, and also give them the same access rights.

As you can see, you need to delete the “Authenticated” and “Users” groups, you also need to add the site user and the “HomeUsers” group.

In order to add or remove a user or group, you must click the “Edit” button. In the window that opens, select a user or group and click the “Delete” button or simply click the “Add” button to add a new group.

A window for selecting users and groups will open:

Click the “Advanced” button and in the new window on the right, the “Search” button:

Select the desired group and click OK until only the “Group Permissions” window remains.

As a result, you should get a full copy of the rights of the child folder:

If everything matches, press the OK button to apply the change and move on to the next step.

7. When trying to remove/add a user, the system may display the following window:

We need to get around this, so we need to disable inheritance of rights for this folder. To do this, in the folder properties in the “Security” section, click the “Advanced” button:

In this window, click the “Change permissions” button and uncheck the “Add permissions inherited from parent objects” checkbox:

Click OK and answer the Windows security question “Delete” (although you can also “Add” - this will simply save the current groups and users, but will also allow you to change them):

We also click OK in the additional security settings window.

8. Open the registry. To do this, press the key combination Win + R and in the “Run” window that opens, write regedit and click OK. (You can also search the Start menu in Windows 7 or Vista by typing regedit)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

And we see several groups of records in this section:

We are interested in groups of the format S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx... select them one by one and look at the value of the ProfileImagePath parameter. The path should lead to the folder for the profile that we need to transfer. In my case it's this one:

Next we need to change the ProfileImagePath value to the path to the new folder. To do this, right-click on the parameter and select “Change”. I write my way, and this is what I got:

10. To be on the safe side, let’s create a symbolic link to the old location; this will solve many problems, especially if some program decides to ignore the new location. To do this, delete the old user folder and open the command line and write the following there:

mklink /J “C:\Users\*user*” “D:\Users\*user*”

Where instead *user* you need to write the name of your folder. For example, " C:\Users\Vladimir"

All that remains is to restart the system and log in with your main account.

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Hello, in this article we will look at a way to transfer a user profile to another computer. To do this we will use the utility Transwiz.

I would like to say that after reinstalling the system, returning everything to its rightful place is a very difficult task, why do this if you can go the simple way - transferring your account. This will save you from such a routine as sorting files and folders, setting wallpaper, configuring Windows and other actions. This operation can also be done with.

Using the Transwiz utility, we will transfer all user account data to the new device. This can be done on any of the modern operating systems.

The disadvantage of the program is that it is not in Russian, but for this reason I am writing this article to help you understand it.

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What do you need to know before working with Transwiz?

When you copy data from one account, you need to have a second one with which you will do this, if it does not exist, then create it or use an administrator account.

Transferring account data using Transwiz

Launch the program. The first thing you'll see are two questions: the first one asks if you're going to transfer your data to a new computer, and the second question asks if you're going to transfer your data to the same computer.

Since we are transferring the account to another computer, we select first point and click “Next”.

In the next section, we need to select the account whose data we will transfer. After pressing the button "Further" you need to specify the folder where a copy of the account will be saved.

Check mark "Fast Pack" means compression, you can also mark it, but this is not necessary. Click "Further".

The next step involves setting a password for the account backup archive, either enter it or click OK and move on.

Copying of all user profile data begins to the folder where you specified. Please note that the files will be archived, and if you specified a password for it, do not forget it.

The created archive will contain all the data, from folders and exact location, to various Windows settings that you configured during the operation of the system.

At the end of the operation, press "Ready".

Transferring a user profile from an old computer to a new one

Install Transwiz on a new computer and at the very beginning select the second option, that is, installing the profile on the same computer.

Specify the path to the archive from copies of the account from the old computer and click "Further".

Enter your computer name.

After this, a message will appear stating that the account does not exist and will ask you to create a new one, so click "Yes". Select the account type, it’s better, of course, "Administrator".

When the system boots, you can see 3 fields for entering a password - this is if you did not specify a password and login for your account. Then enter a new password, but only in the last two fields, do not touch the first.

I would like to note that profile transfer is carried out not only between identical versions of systems; you can transfer a profile from Windows 10, say, to Windows 8 or Windows 7, but you should not guarantee that the copy is installed correctly.

User profile is a set of parameters thanks to which the appearance of the computer and its operation correspond to the user's desires. It contains settings for the desktop background, screen savers, pointers, sound, and other settings. User profiles allow you to apply personal settings every time you log into Windows.

A user profile is different from the user account that is used to log into Windows. Each account has at least one user profile associated with it.

Before us stands the task is to transfer users from one domain to another domain with saving the user profile.

Naturally there are several different ways. Let's look at some of them.

The best thing is probably to use a special Microsoft's utility USMT.

Also in Windows there is " File and Settings Transfer Wizard". Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

There is also a special utility called Ideal Migration, you can also try it.

1) Log in to your computer using an account from the workgroup

2) Log in as an administrator, give all rights to the folder with the old domain profile to a new user from the workgroup

3) Upload the NTUSER.DAT file located in the old profile into regedit under any name and add permissions to this (loaded) registry branch for the new user from the workgroup.

The meaning of this item is to give permission to a new user from the workgroup to use the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key, inherited from the old (in this case domain) user. Accordingly, this registry branch (hive) is stored in the profile in the NTUSER.DAT file. And you can give rights to it using regedit, having first downloaded this file, for this in regedit we put the cursor on HKEY_USERS, then “File” -> “Load hive” -> Select NTUSER.DAT from the old user’s profile -> Assign the partition name to example “1” (no difference), although it is better to take the SID of the old user for this. Next, for the loaded hive, add full access rights for the new user.

4) In the registry, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList section, find the section in which the ProfileImagePath parameter has a value that refers to the path to the profile of the new user from the workgroup and replace it with the path to the profile of the old (domain) ) user.

In this case, the new user will work with absolutely the same profile as the old one. The only thing that can be lost is passwords saved in a secure storage, for example for OutlookExpress. But it will remain possible to work with one profile from two accounts, both from a domain account and from a local one.

They also advise trying to transfer using the transwiz or profwiz program. Both live at http://www.forensit.com/

Restoring the path to a user profile on a Windows workstation

If a user logs on to a workstation with the Windows operating system after completing work to include the workstation in the Active Directory domain and its desktop, the folder with documents and settings are gone, this means that a new user profile has been created instead of the old one. After all, even if a local user and a domain user have the same names, these are completely different users and therefore the system rightly creates a new profile for the domain user. You can restore the user's desktop settings and documents by specifying the path to the old profile in the system registry.

Procedure to restore Windows user desktop settings:

Log in as another user who has administrative rights to the computer, for example " Administrator» computer

Correct the access list in the security tab of the profile folder - add a domain user to the list with full access rights. User profile folders are usually located in C:\Documents And Settings\_user_name_

Launch the registry editor (regedit). In the thread HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList there is a list of computer user profiles. Key branches describing profiles are named by user SID. You need to look through each of these branches and find the old profile and the new (domain) profile by directory name, then specify the old path in the branch for the new profile. Registry value that contains the path to the user profile ProfileImagePath.

These actions are usually enough to return all of the user’s pre-domain settings back to the user. Thanks to the author.

Here's a little more on the topic (rakes):

1. give the created account admin rights
2. go under it and check the functionality of the profile - launching programs, location of shortcuts, if everything is OK, then it’s all about the rights to hkey_current_user
3. open REGEDIT.EXE
4. on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER branch, right-click->menu item “permissions”
5. in the list that appears, you will most likely see an unknown account (S-1-.....), which has full rights to this branch, so, you need to replace it with the account you created, after which you can take away admin rights

You need to change permissions for all elements of the branch, i.e. check the box “replace permissions...”

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