New home directory created: messed up user profile? Is there a way out.

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Donald Newcomb

This problem must be in a KB or FAQ somewhere but I couldn't get the right
keywords to pull up a clear answer on either microsoft.com or google. If
this is covered someplace a pointer would be appreciated.

I have a stand-alone Win2K Pro PC (e.g. ZOO) with a power user (e.g. hippo).
A few days ago hippo logged onto ZOO for the 10,000th time and was greeted
with a "Welcome to Windows 2000" screen as if he were a first-time user.
What's
more, hippo's "My Documents" folder was pretty much empty. From
Administrator you can see what happened is that all hippo's files are still
in "C:\Documents and Settings\hippo" but the system has created a new folder
"hippo.ZOO" and made that hippo's home. I looked around in the KBs and
figured that there was a problem with the user's profile. Not finding a good
solution, I went into hippo's advanced settings and pointed his "Profile
Path" back to "C:\Documents and Settings\hippo". All this seems to have
accomplished is to copy everything from "hippo" to "hippo.ZOO" eating up a
lot of disk space.

Before I get in any deeper, is there a KB that describes how to fix this
problem and point hippo's home back to the original path, the way it was?
Thanks for your time.
 
One of the rhinos might have been playing with the 'Network Identification
Wizard'. You can navigate to;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
locate the new profile SID and edit the Reg_Expand_Sz 'ProfileImagePath' to
point back to the old profile. (note: this assumes the profile isn't
corrupt)

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| This problem must be in a KB or FAQ somewhere but I couldn't get the right
| keywords to pull up a clear answer on either microsoft.com or google. If
| this is covered someplace a pointer would be appreciated.
|
| I have a stand-alone Win2K Pro PC (e.g. ZOO) with a power user (e.g.
hippo).
| A few days ago hippo logged onto ZOO for the 10,000th time and was greeted
| with a "Welcome to Windows 2000" screen as if he were a first-time user.
| What's
| more, hippo's "My Documents" folder was pretty much empty. From
| Administrator you can see what happened is that all hippo's files are
still
| in "C:\Documents and Settings\hippo" but the system has created a new
folder
| "hippo.ZOO" and made that hippo's home. I looked around in the KBs and
| figured that there was a problem with the user's profile. Not finding a
good
| solution, I went into hippo's advanced settings and pointed his "Profile
| Path" back to "C:\Documents and Settings\hippo". All this seems to have
| accomplished is to copy everything from "hippo" to "hippo.ZOO" eating up a
| lot of disk space.
|
| Before I get in any deeper, is there a KB that describes how to fix this
| problem and point hippo's home back to the original path, the way it was?
| Thanks for your time.
|
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| Donald R. Newcomb
| DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net
|
|
|
 
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