The Active Directory Migration Toolkit transfers the user accounts from the old domain to the new one. Thereby it stores a SID-History with the new user accounts so that access authorization in the network are still functional with the new user accounts. Unfortunatly this seems not to work with the actual desktop settings. Sure you can still access secured stuff on the harddisk while logged on in the new domain, but winxp creates a new user folder and sid entry for the account in the registry. This results in new Desktop, Outlook and IE settings. So if you are not absolutely sure that this problem is solveable with the admt-tool please try to help me working on the script solution by finding out old and new SIDs from the domains. If you are sure on the other hand, please tell me where I´ve gone wrong in my virtual testing environment, cause it doesn`t keep up the desktop settings there. Thanks a lot for your answers. Kind regards, bekickst.