OK, I was tooooo curious and just checked it out.
First: Yes, it works. :-) My Settings are saved, at least as far as I have checked them out so far: Outlook2000 POP3 state & opened folders, SonyEricsson PC Suit Sync state with Outlook, files of course. Picasa still stands out (the folders, collections, items worked on etc.)
but... there are some special things.
Security:
After copying the profile folder using Explorer from the NTFS source drive (was an XP Home system volume) to my new machine, all copied files are owned by the user executing the copying Explorer process, but the ("unknown") former owner was still present in the ACL.
After assigning the profile (of 3GB and thousands of files) was complete, the executing account owns all files of the profile (still), the assigned account has "full access",
BUT "Everyone" ("Jeder" in German) HAS READ/EXECUTE ACCESS TO ALL FILES!
-> 2 things to do: Transfer ownership for the files *inside the profile folder* to the assigned account & do not (may be by option) grant read/execute access to Everyone.
Currently I am still using the newly assigned profile as "Administrator" user, not as "Restricted" (which is the only choice on XP Home). So I do not know if this will change anything. But I will switch down the account to "Restricted" soon again.
I will also try to "gain ownership on all files in the profile" which should be possible with "full access", and then remove "read"execute access to Everyone" since that is not that private.
Files and applications:
I am mainly concerned about user/pw settings and caches, like "which mails are already fetched via POP3" and so on. Cache state looks good, as I said before, but user/pw state is somewhat weird:
For Outlook2000, the first start presented the E-Mail Configuration dialogue, and I was quite shocked, but OL2K recognized the present settings again and everything was fine. But the e-mail account setup was weird: The profiles and accounts were present, but I was asked for the passwords again. A look into the config dialog boxes told me that everything was fine, but OL2K did not use the PW really, although the login was present and a password was shown as ***** with "keep password" option set.
For Skype I maybe have installed a newer version then was installed on the old laptop. The username was remebered, but not the PW, and thus I had to change it, because I did not find the old one anywhere.
That all seems as if PW data is not really reusable when it was encrypted by the application before. It would be interesting to hear about other user experiences on this topic.
Last: Desktop setup:
That is not really important, but besides task bar config and wallpaper config it does not work properly anyway: The Icons are just messed up.
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BUT FINALLY that all seems NOTHING to me compared with rebuilding all settings manually, deleting >4000 double mails from my client again, cleaning up double calendar entries on my telephone etc. etc.
THUS:
Yes, good work!!
Just go ahead and improve the security settings, as far as possible. And add something about this to the documentation, since it may be of real concern.
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