User Accounts

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Karl Swire

I have a small issue with 1 user account on a Win2K professional machine.
Each time the user logs on the OS creates a duplicate of his usual account
in the style of [UserName].[MachineName]. If I delete this it still comes
back every time.

Anybody any ideas as to A: why this occurs and B: How to stop this from
happening?

All help gratefully received


TIA
 
Sorry, there is still only one user account but it creates a duplicate
profile in documents and settings named as described in the first post as
[UserName].[ComputerName]

Cheers


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Kevin Huntly said:
When you say "creates a duplicate account" do you mean
duplicate profile or a completely new account? Please
clarify..

-----Original Message-----
I have a small issue with 1 user account on a Win2K professional machine.
Each time the user logs on the OS creates a duplicate of his usual account
in the style of [UserName].[MachineName]. If I delete this it still comes
back every time.

Anybody any ideas as to A: why this occurs and B: How to stop this from
happening?

All help gratefully received


TIA






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Hi Karl,

The OS will create a duplicate profile if it is unable to load the user profile
registry hive:

%SystemRoot%\Documents and Settings\%UserName%\ntuser.dat

The user profile registry hive may fail to load for a number of reasons. If the user
in question loses the Full Control permission for the %UserProfile% folder,
Windows creates a new user profile. If the registry hive of the user in question is
loaded (using regedt32) while logged on in another account, then is not unloaded
before the user logs on, Windows creates a new user profile. You may be able to
determine other reasons by using any error messages you receive during subsequent
logon attempts (pop-up message and/or Event Viewer ID 1000 userenv messages).

Once the reason has been determined and the cause corrected (assuming it can be
corrected) you must edit the registry so that the profile image path points to the
correct user profile folder. For more information see the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base Articles:

KB314045 - HOW TO Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=314045

KB228445 - User Profile Storage in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=228445

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: "Karl Swire" <karl.swire AT ntlworld DOT com>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 03:49 PM
:
: I have a small issue with 1 user account on a Win2K professional machine.
: Each time the user logs on the OS creates a duplicate of his usual account
: in the style of [UserName].[MachineName]. If I delete this it still comes
: back every time.
:
: Anybody any ideas as to A: why this occurs and B: How to stop this from
: happening?
:
: All help gratefully received
 
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