How to switch the user to use winnt 4 workstation?

[echain]

One of the user left our company. A new user is using his computer. We need to change the user name to the new user. We need all mails history from the old user, and other softwares, but how can I restore all the old user settings to use for new user? The workstation is NT4.0 workstation.
Thanks for the help!!!!!

 

[2ffat]

The first place I'd start is copying the old user to the new user in the User Manager. After that, I'd go to the Settings->TaskBar. In there, go to the Start Menu Programs.
From there, go into the Advanced option. This will bring up an Explorer screen. Copy all the icons in the Desktop folder from the old user to the new user. Do the same for the Program folder.

After that, it's probably going into the old users folders in profiles and copying files to the new users profile folders.

You will have to have administrator rights to do this, though.

James P. Cottingham

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[jaeddy]

Rename the user account and assign a new password. If the user has a remote share (say a drive mapped to a folder on the PDC or some such) you may want to rename that for convenience sake. NT does not actually identify users by name, but by SID- changing the name on the account will preserve the SID and it's associated permissions. The only area where this could become problematic might be with your mail server, but I suspect you can do the same there (ie- simply rename the mailbox).