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  1. 29 Jan 2011 #1


    cpking

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    profile duplicatation-sort of

    I believe this is the right forum, but if not, please correct me.

    First, I'm on Vista HP SP2, 4GM ram, Sony laptop. Computer name is vgn-ar350e.



    I encountered a problem with the display of folders which turned out to be a corrupt user profile. I followed the various instructions online to duplicate the profile. Now when I reach the login screen, there are three logins: administrator, profile1 and profile2. However, if I browse the c:\users folder, there are extra folders; administrator, administrator.vgn-ar350o, profile1, profile2, profile2.vgn-ar350e.

    The contents of the two administrator folders and the two profile2 folders are different. Profile2 was a copy of profile1; what I'm confused about are the .vgn-ar350e folders. Where did they come from and how can I consolidate all of this.

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  2. 29 Jan 2011 #2
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    Re: profile duplicatation-sort of

    If you still have the original folder, download easy transfer. Transfer everything to a finger drive then trasfer back to the new account. I did it and it works. I wanted to test before transferring to Windows 7
    Download details: Windows Easy Transfer for transferring from Windows Vista (32 bit) to Windows 7
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en

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