How to import all files from one user account to a new one?

[Adarsh_2]

I want to delete my current user account (admin) and I want to make a new user account making this the admin and I want all the files to be transfered to this before I delete that.

should I copy the user from users?
or I basically have to do nothing and just make this one admin and delete it?

 

[Eximo]

If it is just files, yes, all you need to do is copy them. If you are talking about settings and all that User State Migration Tool maybe.

 

[Adarsh_2]

Hmm, and how about the programs like photoshop etc? I don't need the settings but basically my stuff like photos/videos/games etc..

 

[Adarsh_2]

I should go to C drive/ users/ myaccount and copy it to my new account. that's it right?

 

[Adarsh_2]

will the files in D drive stay?

 

[Eximo]

You can't really copy programs like that. And more often than not, they are not stored in your user profile. Only per user settings would be found there, if at all.

Unless you have been doing strange things, there will be no user specific files on a second partition.

I suppose I don't really know why you need to do this. You can change permissions on a local account to suit.

 

[Adarsh_2]

I posted this thread a month ago, http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3034540/windows-suddenly-acting-weird.html
that happened. and there was basically no other fix rather than losing everything and re-installing windows. I didn't want to do that. I waited for a while, even system reset won't work. I tried everything. all I wanted to do is fix the thing without losing the programs.

But now when I log in to my account, apart from those problems now it has a black screen and wont work or anything.
But i managed to create a new account before, "Everything" works perfectly fine in that. So I've decided to make a new user account and get my stuff into it Rather than re-installing windows losing everything.

 

[Eximo]

At some point it becomes more time consuming to try and fix an unknown software problem then it does to just do the re-install. Pretty common condition in my software testing lab at work. This is why it is important to take regular backups and system images whenever possible.

 

[wpgwpg]

The way I'd do it would be to make a full system backup to an external hard drive before doing anything else. Then after creating the new ID (and before deleting the old one), do what you need to do to be able to access the files. If need be, you can get them from your back up, and you'll have a system image you could use to restore your system in case of future emergencies.

Good luck.