Documents and Settings which are active after reinstall?

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Hi,

I recently did a reinstall of Win 2000 Pro without a disk reformat. How
can I tell which are the active profiles for Administrator, 'All Users'
and 'Default User' in 'Documents and Settings' and which are the old ones?
I have duplicates like 'Default User' and 'Default User.WINNT'.

In 'Users and Passwords' there is no reference to what Dir is being used
for each user and this wouldn't help for 'All Users' and 'Default User'
anyway.

Thanks,

MS
 
Easiest way?.....

Start > Run, type: temp

or

Start > Run, type: cookies

That will take you to the "active" cookies/temp folder for the logged on
user. (you'll see the path in the address bar)

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Many thanks -- that works for half my problem.

What about for 'All Users' and 'Default User'?

Cheers,

MS

Steven Burn emailed this:
 
You might be able to find this info in the registry (about the only place I
can think of unfortunately).

Start > Run, type: regedit

Then do a search for "All Users" and "Default User". Cannot guarantee it
will work, but it's worth a try.

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

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MS said:
Hi,

I recently did a reinstall of Win 2000 Pro without a disk reformat. How
can I tell which are the active profiles for Administrator, 'All Users'
and 'Default User' in 'Documents and Settings' and which are the old
ones? I have duplicates like 'Default User' and 'Default User.WINNT'.
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A quick look at the creation date in each folder's properties will tell
you which ones were most recently created, and are therefore most likely
to be in use by the newer installation.


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MS said:
Many thanks -- that works for half my problem.

What about for 'All Users' and 'Default User'?
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Odds are that the user profile folders with the ".WINNT" suffix are the
newer profiles. By default, Win2K assigns suffixes to folders only when
a folder with the same name already exists.

A quick look at the creation date in each folder's properties will
tell you which ones were most recently created, and are therefore most
likely to be in use by the newer installation.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
 
Open regedit
navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

The Values (right pane) for AllUsersProfile and DefaultUserProfile tell you
which folder corresponds to those "profiles".

You will also see a Key for each user that has logged on. The
ProfileImagePath tells you which folder is being used as teh "profile" for
that user account. The Key is the SID (Security Identifier) which is kind
of useless, but it is usually pretty easy to tell from the name in the
ProfileImagePath which username belongs to which SID.
 
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