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The User State Migration Tool, which can be used to migrate users to Vista, is a command line utility that someone has now created a GUI wrapper for. Keep reading →

When you migrate user data to a new Windows Vista computer after you stop the InputPersonalization.exe process, the InputPersonalization.exe process may not start correctly. Additionally, you may lose personalization data and functionality.

Additionally, you may receive the following error message:

An error occurred in the Handwriting recognition personalization tool

Additionally, the following messages may be logged in the Application log:

Handwriting recognition personalization failed to initialize the store of handwriting samples that are used to personalize handwriting recognition.
Handwriting recognition personalization: Some or all of the handwriting samples that were collected to personalize the handwriting recognizer are unreadable

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In a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service domain environment, you use a migrated user account to log on to a migrated computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP. In this case, you may receive the following error message:

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes to this profile will be lost when you logoff.

After you log on to the migrated computer, Windows creates a temporary profile for the migrated user account. Additionally, error messages that resemble the following may be logged in the Application log:

Message 1

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1511
Date: Date
Time: Time
User: User_Name
Computer: Computer_Name
Description: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

Message 2

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1512
Date: Date
Time: Time
User: User_Name
Computer: Computer_Name
Description: Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Message 3

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1518
Date: Date
Time: Time
User: User_Name
Computer: Computer_Name
Description: Windows was unable to load the registry. This is often caused by insufficient memory or insufficient security rights.
DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:

• You use a third-party migration tool to perform an intraforest migration of the user account and of the computer. After the migration, the source user account still exists.
• You have included the security identifier (SID) history in the migration.
• You have performed a translation for the cached profile on the migrated computer during the migration.

Note: The translation of the cached profile enables the migrated user account to access the profile of the source user account after migration.

Notes

• This issue also occurs in a Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory domain environment.
• This issue occurs if the migrated computer is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP.