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Since my profile for my main user is screwed up I created a new user and then did a copy and paste of the contents from the old user to the new user. How can I export all of these settings (boot, startup, services, etc.) from the old user and then how do I import them to the new user?

The screwed up profile takes 15-17 min. after a successful login before the system is ready to do anything. Before the screwed up profile it would take approximately 5-7 min. to go from login to ready.

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You can use the built-in Easy Transfer, which will move your profile settings.

You'll need to start it up on the old login then have it save out to a file to import into the new login.

During the import, you can choose what folders and which registry keys to import in.

But you have to ask yourself, "If I have no idea what went wrong with the old profile in the first place, is it wise to import any of the old settings?"

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that is why I am interested in just exporting/importing the stuff from MS config – the new user/profile seems to work very well but I don't want to use msconfig on the new user "manually" if there is an easier way to do things… – greenber Dec 4 '11 at 22:57
Then Easy Transfer should be the ticket. – surfasb Dec 5 '11 at 5:26
easy transfer seems to be great for transferring everything except the startup stuff in msconfig – I have the entire disk already transferred and the new profile works well. How do I transfer only the startup items from one profile to another? Cut and paste does not work. So how do I do this? – greenber Dec 6 '11 at 20:29
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