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Old December 31st 18, 08:17 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
JJ[_11_]
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Default Export/import account while preserving its account ID?

Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later restore it
into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I meant
something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If
possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files which
are it its profile folder.
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Old December 31st 18, 08:23 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Sjouke Burry[_2_]
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Default Export/import account while preserving its account ID?

On 31-12-2018 8:17, JJ wrote:
Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later restore it
into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I meant
something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If
possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files which
are it its profile folder.

Try a zip file , store that on an external drive/stick.
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Old December 31st 18, 10:36 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Export/import account while preserving its account ID?

Sjouke Burry wrote:
On 31-12-2018 8:17, JJ wrote:
Is there a way to backup a user account into a file, then later
restore it
into another PC so that its account ID is preserved? By account ID, I
meant
something like `S-1-2-34-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234`. If
possible, only the account object. Not including the account's files
which
are it its profile folder.

Try a zip file , store that on an external drive/stick.
.


I'm not sure its account ID is practical to preserve.

Each OS installation has a custom set of the 1234567890
triplet. So if you preserved the number exactly as in
your example, it would look to the new OS as a "foreign"
kind of thing. The four digit number on the end, is the
actual account number. Administrator is 500. User accounts
start at 1000 and go up. On some installs, the first user
might not always be 1000, and it could be 1001 or 1002
and so on. It's not a given that every installed OS uses
1000 for (what the user assumes) is the very first account.
It's possible a video card driver installation, might
call for its own account for example.

A SID is a SID, and in theory, two strings of numbers could
"co-exist". But I bet the OS compares the triplet parts,
and it would treat a foreign one like it was a "Guest" or
something. There's no reason to "trust" an account that
came from somewhere else.

If a tool transfers stuff instead, there's probably some
sort of ceremony where the number string gets changed.
Sorta like a newuser() call, followed by a lot of copying
and registry-correcting.

*******

If you look at this article, it might seem like you
could cook up a Win7 to Win7 solution, but I really
wonder in the end, what aspects of the transfer actually
work. The number of "if-then-else" constructs in
this article is troubling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Easy_Transfer

Make a backup of the destination drive, so that if the
attempt fails, you can easily clean up and restore things
to normal.

Paul
 




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