From: "Glenn Meadows" 

It's moved the profiles for me, but not sure what Autocad has to say about
that though.  Will be interested to see how it works out.  Set the user as
part of the Admin Group on the local machine, and the same on the new
target machine.  Log in, and install the program from that users profile on
both systems, and let it do it's thing.

Then you can remove that user from the Local Admin group after the move.

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Glenn M.
"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:55:38 -0800, "Rich"  wrote:
>
>>   If the issue is with the user profile you can copy or backup and
>> restore that.  How well that works depends on the application.  Any
>> application that supports roaming profiles should work.  This leads to
>> the second idea.  Can you use roaming profiles?  You may even be able to
>> enable them temporarily just for the duration of the migration.  I've
>> never tried the latter myself so can't comment on the effectiveness.
>
> I do use roaming profiles here, they are handy.
>
> For some reason I can't exactly determine, the Autodesk civil design
> series still doesn't work with roaming profiles.  It's odd because
> vanilla AutoCAD seems fine with them.  Also on some older machine the
> profile is stored in \winnt\profiles and on the new machines it's
> Documents and Settings.  Usually I have to give the user temporary
> admin rights, do the install, then remove them from the admins.
>
> I'm going to try the Laplink software Glenn mentioned to see if that
> works.  I can get it for $20 and if it works it may be the easiest way
> to accomplish what I want.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Richard

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