Creating another User Account Issues

Hello-
I recently created another user account because of of corruption issues and need to have the same functionality in the new user profile. I transferred all the old user profile data to the new user profile as per instructions posted here:
Locate the C:\Users\Old_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and Old_Username is the name of the profile
you want to copy files from.
Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files:
Ntuser.dat
Ntuser.dat.log
Ntuser.ini
Click the Edit menu, and then click Copy.
If you don't see the Edit menu, press Alt.
Locate the C:\Users\New_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and New_Username is the name of the new
user profile you created.
Click the Edit menu, and then click Paste.
If you don't see the Edit menu, press Alt.
Log off, and then log back on as the new user.
After doing this I have noticed some programs not launching the same with missing info. For example TeamSpeak3 launches but opens as a new user with none of my saved bookmark profiles even though they are listed in the directory file. To me
it has to be a permissions thing or User data transfer issue, because I have the user data in the old user app data file but none in the new user app data.
I am the only user of this computer so there is no user issues with other people and would like full functionality. Thanks in advance.

@ Kate Li thanks for responding and yes I did follow the instructions in the folder options to unhide and show all the files I didn't copy>paste that portion just to save room on the post. The link is the same as the one I used:
Click the View tab, and then click Show
hidden files, folders, and drives.
Clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, click Yes to
confirm, and then click OK.
One mistake I did make was to copy>paste the shortcuts when I know now to just create them from the program directory (send to desktop) context.
Would you happen to have a link explaining how to go about transferring or importing registry files?

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