User Profiles

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Dave

Is there a way I can determine what the user profile is on
my computer thats actually the good profile? What I mean
by that is, I have several now, created by the windows xp
home edition, each time I have had to do a system
recovery, the new owner and administrator accounts show up.
These are duplicate accounts, and I would like to be able
to merge them, but I dont know how to determine which one
is current and active.
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks
 
The duplicate profiles don't usualy have the files that
have been created by the user.

Jerry
 
Is there a way I can determine what the user profile is on
my computer thats actually the good profile? What I mean
by that is, I have several now, created by the windows xp
home edition, each time I have had to do a system
recovery, the new owner and administrator accounts show up.
These are duplicate accounts, and I would like to be able
to merge them, but I dont know how to determine which one
is current and active.
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks
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While you are logged on to your "good" account, click Start> Run and type
in %userprofile% then click OK. The folder for your current user account
will show up on the screen.

NOTE: When you install Windows over itself (instead of performing a repair
install), new accounts of the same name will have an extension added to
them. Example: If there is an account named John in the original setup, the
new one will be John.computername

I wouldn't try to merge any accounts. The old accounts are not being used
and the basic necessities have already been created for the new. If you
decide to delete older user accounts, grab any data out of their folders
that you don't want to lose.

If using NTFS, you may run into some permissions problems. If that happens,
see "ownership" in Help and Support. Also, for your reference:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
 
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