I will show you how to make a windows user profile associate with another users files. This can be very useful when joining non active directory computers that have been used in a non active directory environment to the active directory domain. So what will happen is that you point a the new active directory user to use the old non domain profile. This doesn’t always work on Windows 7 machines but it does on Windows XP computers.
- You will need to log in as the new domain user
- Then log out and log back in as local administrator
- Open the registry editor. Do this by pressing “ctrl” + “r” and typing in regedit
- Inside the registry editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- Look inside each key they will be named with a {GUID} you will need to find the one for the new domain user
- In each key will be a string value called “ProfileImagePath”
- Change this string value to the profile path of the old non-domain user
- Now log off and log in as the new user
Now your user will load up that location for their user profile.
