One of the many benefits of having a domain is the ease in managing user accounts and profiles. The user accounts, and profiles, start on the domain controller, and are replicated onto the client computers as necessary. The domain controller is updated, with any changes to the profile, from the client computer. When you move to a new computer, the updated profile is copied from the domain controller.
When you're in a workgroup, managing accounts and profiles is not so simple. Next time you have Windows Explorer open, look at "C:\Documents and Settings". Look at your personal profile folder structure in there. How do you find and copy all of the settings, and personal files, in there? Doing that, file by file, could take forever.
So we have the File and Settings Transfer Wizard, to export all personal settings, and profile files, for installation on another workgroup computer. To run the wizard, go to All Programs - Accessories - System Tools.
When you run the wizard, you have 2 main choices.
This is the computer I want to transfer files and settings from.
This is the computer I want to transfer files and settings to.