How to clone administrator account in XP?

External Since: Aug 25, 2004 Posts: 5

I've been building a new system over the past week with WinXP installed
from scratch. Everything came up fine and my WinXP installation was
unremarkable. I reinstalled a bunch of my applications before realizing
that I was doing all this under the Administrator acccount. I had
created a user with my name during the WinXP setup thinking that I would
install everything from there, but I wasn't paying attention in my haste
to get up and running and just kept logging into the admin account and
merrily doing my installs.

I suppose I can just continue doing this since I'm the only user of the
machine, but if I wanted to clone the entire admin account to a new user
including all desktop and application preferences, wallpaper, font
settings, etc., is it possible to do that? (Easily?)

Thanks for any help.

Dave

External Since: May 08, 2004 Posts: 95

"Dave" <ds.RemoveThis@es.org> wrote in message
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> I've been building a new system over the past week with WinXP installed
> from scratch. Everything came up fine and my WinXP installation was
> unremarkable. I reinstalled a bunch of my applications before realizing
> that I was doing all this under the Administrator acccount. I had
> created a user with my name during the WinXP setup thinking that I would
> install everything from there, but I wasn't paying attention in my haste
> to get up and running and just kept logging into the admin account and
> merrily doing my installs.
>
> I suppose I can just continue doing this since I'm the only user of the
> machine, but if I wanted to clone the entire admin account to a new user
> including all desktop and application preferences, wallpaper, font
> settings, etc., is it possible to do that? (Easily?)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave
If no more than one user is added during the install of XP, then the one
user account is automatically made the administrator - there has to be one.
So don't see what the problem is. Also if no password is entered for the one
user, then XP boots right in to Windows, which is the way I like it, with no
log-in screen...