How to transfer user accounts from Windows XP to Windows 7, Part 2 By Drew Mathers | October 13, 2015 Create a new administrator account For this tutorial we will use a shared network drive, but a portable hard drive could also be used. On the old (Windows XP) computer: 1 1. Click: Start 2 2. Click: Control Panel 3a 3a. Click: User Accounts (if Control Panel is set to Category View) 3b 3b. Double-click: User Accounts (if Control Panel is set to Classic View) 4 4. Click: Create a new account 5 5. Name the account: Transfer Admin 6 6. Click: Next 7 7. Select: Computer administrator 8 8. Click: Create Account 9 9. Click: Start 10 10. Click: Log Off 11 11. Click: Log Off 12 12. Log in as Transfer Admin and proceed to Part 3 Posted in Intermediate
