CHANGING a current local login profile to a domain profile

When joining users to the domain. Copying their current profiles to new profiles, this will takes a very long time.

There's a way to CHANGE their current local login profile, (without creating a copy as that will take up lots of space and time,) to a domain profile

1. Log onto system.

2. Go to start/run/regedt32

3. Locate key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

4. This will show all readable profiles on the machine, it may but probably will not show information leading to the users original profile.

5. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\UsersName and note the profile name of the original profile, usually the same minus the domain information. Make a note of it.

6. Now go back to regedit and manually edit the duplicate profile location in the ProfileImagePath key to that of the original e.g:

Original - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith
Duplicate - %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\jsmith.domain

Change the duplicate to point to the original profile, save the change.

7. Now have the user log back in, and they should now again be operating on their original profile