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This process should allow the user to all local profile settings and data. Remapping of drive letters or printers may need to occur if the server name or shares have changed.

1. Take note of the original profile name in “C:\Documents and Settings”.. It’s not case sensitive, but write it down exactly.
2. Login as local Administrator.
3. Rename the folder, adding “.old” to the end of it.
4. Disjoin the machine from the domain by moving it into a workgroup.
5. Reboot.
6. Login as Local Administrator.
7. Join the machine to the domain.
8. Reboot.
9. Login as the domain user.
10. Reboot.
11. Login as Domain Administrator.
12. Add the domain user to the local Administrators group.
13. Open the folder properties of the OLD profile folder and add the domain user with Full Control.
14. Take note of the exact name of the new profile folder.
15. Rename the new profile by adding “.new” to the end.
16. Rename the OLD profile to the name you took down in Step 14.
17. Download the Junction utility, unzip it, and copy junction.exe to C:\Windows\System32.

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/fileanddisk/junction.mspx

18. Open a command prompt and run this command, using the profile name from step 1 for the ‘old’ and the profile name from step 14 as the ‘new’ one.
    junction -q “old profile name” “new profile name”
19. Reboot.
20. Login with the user’s domain account.