Windows 10: How to copy user accounts in Win8 to online accounts in Win10

Discus and support How to copy user accounts in Win8 to online accounts in Win10 in User Accounts and Family Safety to solve the problem; Hi I'm surprised that nobody else has this problem, but I've searched and can't find an answer...apologies if I've not looked hard enough but I... Discussion in 'User Accounts and Family Safety' started by AndyKnights, Jan 23, 2016.

  1. How to copy user accounts in Win8 to online accounts in Win10


    Hi

    I'm surprised that nobody else has this problem, but I've searched and can't find an answer...apologies if I've not looked hard enough but I decided to post a question because this is 'urgent' to me.

    I had 2 children's accounts in Win 8, and had local Parental Controls. Upgraded OS to Win 10, and now I can't manage Parental Controls in Win 10 locally, so I 'think' I need to set up 'online Profiles' for them.

    However, all their game progress, profile settings, etc are on their local profiles - how can I get all this data to be on their online Profiles? I didn't want to copy and paste folders (such as AppData) without knowing that this was a 'safe' way to do this.

    Any help would be hugely appreciated.

    Rgds,
    Andy

    :)
     
    AndyKnights, Jan 23, 2016
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  2. Todd_939 Win User

    Win10 - the user profile service service failed the logon User profile cannot be loaded - Child Account

    Did anyone ever figure out how to resolve this? I had the automatic upgrade from win8 to win10. In win10 when I create a new account and then try to log in I get the same error message - The user profile
    service service failed the logon , User profile cannot be loaded

    This is so annoying. It worked fine in Win8.
     
    Todd_939, Jan 23, 2016
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  3. Create User Accounts in Win10

    Creating a new account to resolve the Critical error issue is not a fix. The error comes back after a while in the new account.
     
    PerlaArquieta, Jan 23, 2016
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  4. philc43 Win User

    How to copy user accounts in Win8 to online accounts in Win10

    philc43, Jan 24, 2016
    #4
  5. Thank you - I really struggled to find that answer. I suppose it was because I wasn't using the 'microsoft' account wording....

    Anyway, seems to be an error. I don't know if it's because I've already allowed access to the PC and included my daughter in my 'family' online - but I get a box saying....Oops something went wrong. It was probably out fault, please try again. I've tried with or without allowing and blocking access to that MS account - same problem each time.

    So, I get the box to log in with her Microsoft account, which I've already set up, I put in the email/password and get a second box to put in her password again (which is actually the same as the MS account that I've set her up with) and then I get this warning....

    Not sure if relevant, but her password has no capitals - alpha-numeric, but no caps.

    Please help.
     
    AndyKnights, Jan 24, 2016
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  6. PS - I tried a fix I found online to remove the kids from my Family account, restarted, and then try - but still same problem...
     
    AndyKnights, Jan 24, 2016
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  7. Any ideas, anyone? I thought this would be quite basic??
     
    AndyKnights, Jan 27, 2016
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  8. philc43 Win User

    How to copy user accounts in Win8 to online accounts in Win10

    philc43, Jan 27, 2016
    #8
  9. Thank you for trying to help but it continued to give me problems.

    However I managed to sort it out by creating a new Microsoft account and linking my daughters local profile to her new Microsoft profile. And it worked!

    No need to restore her profile to an old point, and kept all her saved progress!
     
    AndyKnights, Jan 31, 2016
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  10. philc43 Win User
    *Smile Well done!

    The Microsoft accounts are quite clever and all her settings will now move with her and keep synced.
     
    philc43, Apr 5, 2018
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