How to Migrate 1 user profile to another

Hi Fiona, welcome to the forums :)

Have you looked at Windows Easy Transfer - Transfer To & From Computers

It can be used on the same machine too :)


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It's a common question, with a common response; Why would you want to do that? It appears that most people, after installing Windows 7, and getting their one and only administrator account custom tailored just the way they like, they want to create a second account (usually a standard account) that looks and works exactly the same without having to go through all the settings, themes, and customizations again. It's perfectly understandable, but a little more difficult to implement, to the point that it may just be worth it to do just that.
I'll spare you the UAC/Administrator lecture, as it has truly run its course on this board. Just know this; I hope you know what risks you are taking by running daily operations logged in as an administrator all the time.

With that, rule number 1; You cannot modify, move, or change an account profile while it is logged in. As an example, we'll use two fictitious accounts, an administrator account that we'll call "admin" and a standard user account we'll call "std". **

** we'll assume that it's the admin account profile that you want to copy to the std account profile.

In folder options, click on the "view" tab and select the dot that says "show hidden files and folders" Also, un-check the box that says "hide protected system files".

Log off the admin account and log in to your std account. If both accounts are administrator accounts that's fine, just keep track of admin and std. From the std account log in, navigate to C:\users. create a new folder here and name it whatever you like. Open up the admin folder and select all of its contents. Now, right click and drag all of the contents to the new folder. In the context menu that appears, select "copy here"

You now have two user profiles in your user folder that are exactly the same, except for the name.

Log off your std account, and log into admin. From admin, navigate to C:\users. Backup, and then remove the std account from C:\users.
log back off of admin and back into std. Navigate to C:\users and rename the new folder that you created to the exact same name you had as std.

Finally, log off and then back on both accounts.

******REMEMBER******** Switching user accounts will not log off the other account. You must go to Start/shutdown and select "log off user"