settings won't stay when switching to user priv from administrator priv ------- Here's my complicated dilemna...had this problem with windows 2000 and xp home also: If I create an admin from scratch and set up the settings/themes/ect... and then switch it to user priv...the settings stay.... However ... If I create a new account and then want to transfer my settings/themes from my original account to this new admin and I use control panel/system/advanced/user profile settings and copy the old settings onto the new account .... clicking on browse and finding the new account and writing over it it works great see all duplicate settings like other account until ... when I change the new account to "user" priv all my user settings seem to vanish, my wallpaper is covered with a blue color and my classic start menu becomes the normal start menu switch user account to administrator priv and it all looks fine again now this is where it gets even stranger... I want to restore my settings to a different computer so what I've been doing is saving my folder from within the "documents and settings folder" then I create the same name user on the other computer, log in once, go back to the original administrator account, delete that created user folder and replace it with mine works swell with administrator priv-- all settings restored as if I'm working at my other computer but switch to user priv and it creates a new folder/account called user.none and all settings vanish as my original "user" folder/account is swept aside -- to sum all this up: How do I copy/restore an account so the setting are exactly the same and be able to switch to user on the new account and keep the settings exactly the same? unless I have to write down all the setting changes I've made and then aply them all over again to each user account I want to make to look exactly like the administrator's account or my account from a previous install wallpaper and all perhaps this is strange but the reason I want to do this aside from simple backup purposes is because I want to have an administrator account that I work on and update...then copy all this to the user account which never changes to admin priv so I can then go on-line with it and be secure. It's not letting me do this so help... and no it's not a virus because this is a fresh install and no it's not my computer because I tried this on other computers with the same result and 3 different os: xp home, xp pro and 2000 pro Is it a regstry problem? Should I not use "user priv" and just rely on my security? Seems to me that the user accounts are to just keep other people that use the same computer out of your stuff and not really an internet protection/backup device, but could someone help me make it into one? Thanx :)

I'm going to try to use the "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" located in the "Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\System Tools" I've never used this but might be more compatible with user account mode with what I want to do. I'll post a follow up once I do this...