Webs’ Random Ideas

Want to synchronize your Mozilla profiles? The directions are pretty straight forward, for Linux you will want to do the same thing essentially, but your folder names and location of those folders will be different. For instance Linux does not have “Documents and Settings”, it has “/home”.

So my setup:
Vista on C:
XP on E:
I want XP on E: to be primary profile location with Vista on C: to snyc to E:

You may want to stop and think a minutre here how you want to configure your setup…

Anyways, now we can start. First we need to copy the profile.ini file from the location the profile will be snyc’d to. In my case I go to XP on E:
E:\Documents and Settings\Devil\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox

Copy the “profile.ini” file by using CTRL+C or drag and drop. Then paste to:
C:\Users\Devil\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

Now open the file in a text editor. And make the following changes (below is what my finished file look like):
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\Documents and Settings\jgwebe2\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xl5cg5nh.default
Default=1
[Profile1]
Name=Guest
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\Documents and Settings\Yogi\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Guest

Make sure you set “IsRelative” to 0 as above. Also, the easiest way to get your profile name and full path is to use My Computer and browse all the way to your location, like I did on XP. Then copy and past the location from the address bar.

Then save the file. And you are done.

As a side note, I did this while reading the directions from Mozilla Firefox, while in Vista. Once I was done I closed down Firefox and reopened it. All was well and it was snycing with the Firefox on XP.

Directions adapted from this very useful HowTo…

I already had Vista installed, but got fed up with it’s crappiness. I couldn’t take the annoyances of not being able to get work done and it just ran slow as hell on a Dell 755. So I installed Windows XP on a 2nd partition I created. After doing so I realized I could no longer boot to Vista, but the Vista partition was still recognized and usable. What to do?

Well for awhile it didn’t bother me too much, but now I want to see what files I have under Vista, what programs are installed, and I want to clean things up. A simple search on the web found me this site with directions for dual booting Vista and XP when Vista is already installed.

So I followed them and got to the point where Vista Bootloader is re-enabled. This causes a problem for me and my setup. I would attempt to login and Vista would tell it has lost the trust between the workstation and Domain.

So after a little more searching I come across this site in which a user recommends to unplug the network cable while attempting to login. This worked, I just had to use an older password that was cached for my domain account. Once in I immediately created a local admin account just in case this happens again! I also removed the machine from our Active Directory (AD) Domain.

I then restarted, logged in again and rejoined to the domain. Once rebooted again I continued on with the directions and installed EasyBCD. One little oddity there, EasyBCD would not let me choose the XP partition, it just kept it with the C: drive even though XP is on the E: drive. This seemed odd as Vista is the C: drive. But I didn’t bother and just left it.

Now I can’t login to XP with an AD account. I am working on correcting this and will post an update when I get there.

According to many forums out there I’m not the only one with this problem, which is a shame for M$. Basically the problem is I was away from my work computer from Monday afternoon till Wednesday morning. The system has Vista Enterprise running and I came back to my system in a constant state of reboot.

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