Don't waste hours using time consuming profile migration tools when you can do it in minutes using a simple registry tweak. This technique can be used to migrate local profiles to domain profiles, domain profiles to local profiles, and domain profiles to domain profiles. It simply involves modifying a registry value and changing the permissions on the user directory and registry hives. In my example, I will be migrating a local profile on Windows 7 to a domain profile. My local user's account name is "user" and my domain user's account name is "tuser". The local user is part of the Local Administrators group. The Domain User is not part of the Local Administrators group, but it won't matter if it is (This tutorial was tested with UAC turned off.) If you or your company finds this tutorial useful, helpful, or time saving, please consider making a donation with the paypal link on the right. This helps with the authors time and hosting bills. Thanks

This has been tested on many production and test environments. In our test environment, here is a list of customizations and software installed and configured on the local user's account: