Windows 10: Create a Windows Account/Profile with exactly the same user data and folders

I have a single admin account on my laptop. I want to create an identical account with no admin access which has exactly the same desktop, application data and access to apps. So, for example, I'd like to be able to login to the new account, open up Firefox and all my passwords, browser history, etc are already stored there.

Once this is set up, it doesn't need to sync - I'd just like a perfect copy initially.

I am comfortable editing registry entries and copying appdata around.

Any ideas?

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Windows 10 - Can't access the Internet or create User Accounts, getting the error message "The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in".

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To transfer the files to the new created account, I suggest you to disable built-in administrator account, login into the newly created account and follow the steps below.

• Press Windows logo + E keys on the keyboard to open
  File explorer.
• Select This PC from the left side panel of the window and open
  users folder located in the C: drive.
• Locate and open old user profile folder in the users folder and transfer all the required files on to the newly created user profile folder.
• Close the window and check if the files & folders are transferred to the current user profile.

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Windows 10 - Relocate the Users folder Part 2 -Creating Account Issue

I decided to leave your suggestion as a last resort (before re-installation). I have my AppData folder ~ 15 GB and also my user profile is placed on the bad sectors of the drive. It took me about 5 mins to login into my desktop with a lot of disk grinding. Anyway, I tried Clonezilla in a "rescue" mode (becasue of unreadable sectors) to clone my drive. I replaced the drive with the clone and It somehow worked quite well. I am able to login and within 2 secs I get usable desktop; even Cortana suddenly came alive again and my menu shows up full. I may still have to fix some minor glitches in my profile or AppData. But everything works well and my user accounts and Program Files (that allow themselves to be installed in any locations) sit happily on the second drive.
Thank you Kari

 

Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

If not the best way to do that but at least the way I recommend:

• "Empty" your user profile folders as much as you can, copying documents, pics, videos, music and all other personal data from all user profiles to external HDD. As following steps require you to relocate Users folder two times, the less data is left in user profile folders, the faster the relocation process. Important: Leave system folder AppData for each profile intact, do not empty / move its content!
• Reverse the relocating, doing exactly as told in tutorial Method Two but this time relocating Users folder back to C: drive
• Shut down the PC, replace the disk where you had Users relocated
• Mount the new disk, boot to Windows, assign new disk the same drive ID letter than the old one had
• Again, do as told in Method Two, now relocating Users to new disk
• Restore the backed up personal user data from external drive to respective folders under each user profile