what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to the
domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it takes her
to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to view all the
accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was USER.DOMAIN format.
All the others had created similar formatting and even the ALL USERS profile
had a duplicate in the format of ALLUSERS.PCNAME

I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I said to
myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come across what
the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said "Unknown" Uh WOW? Major
problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS. I had problems with this PC
not even a month ago and totally formatted it and went to NTFS

I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles SID and
it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to the new
profile back to the old profile.

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html

I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and everything
was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not "Unknown" like
it was earlier... LOL

What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to waste
an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!


--
Keith Chilton, MCP
Data Services Technician
River Valley Financial Bank
430 Clifty Drive
Madison, IN 47250
812-273-4949 ext 348
Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730

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Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it has
been using for the past months and starts creating a USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000
profile all by itself, sometimes even USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or
USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time there were 5 of the same User
Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of these under Documents & Settings
for each User, go figure at least 50 users would use the computer at our
school on a given day, that's alot of profiles, so now and again, I just
re-image the computers, except the Teacher computers, where I have to be
careful not to loose any data, they didnt save to their personal data on a
mapped drive on the server. Bad teachers! In this case, I just delete the
profiles that were unnecessarily created and delete them and leave the one
that was originally created. 95% of the time, it works just fine with that.
Now looking at the thread you just posted explains pretty much everything
about the problem, well done for that research.

I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles a
computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my speciality
is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the moment. Once I
get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to start showing me the
ropes on the servers, except I do have my own server, namely a dedicated
Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my precious saved Ghost images,
ready for deployment.

Ramon



If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in 7
minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.

"Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to the
>domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it takes her
>to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to view all the
>accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was USER.DOMAIN format.
>All the others had created similar formatting and even the ALL USERS
>profile had a duplicate in the format of ALLUSERS.PCNAME
>
> I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I said
> to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come across
> what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said "Unknown" Uh WOW?
> Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS. I had problems with
> this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted it and went to NTFS
>
> I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles SID
> and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to the
> new profile back to the old profile.
>
> http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
>
> I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
> everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
> "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
>
> What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
> waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
>
>
> --
> Keith Chilton, MCP
> Data Services Technician
> River Valley Financial Bank
> 430 Clifty Drive
> Madison, IN 47250
> 812-273-4949 ext 348
> Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
>
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Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

i see this pretty often on the network here.
Our official stance on the issue is a complete new profile.
We rename the local and the roaming profile and just transfer all user data
to the new profile.

The thing i see most often compared to that link tho is that our network
seems to do it mostly on windows 2000, we just rolled out XP a few months ago
and i cant recall seeing it happen on one of those boxes tho.


--
NMCI Support Analyst
Soon to be MCP and MCDST


"Ramon De Bruijn" wrote:

> I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it has
> been using for the past months and starts creating a USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000
> profile all by itself, sometimes even USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or
> USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time there were 5 of the same User
> Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of these under Documents & Settings
> for each User, go figure at least 50 users would use the computer at our
> school on a given day, that's alot of profiles, so now and again, I just
> re-image the computers, except the Teacher computers, where I have to be
> careful not to loose any data, they didnt save to their personal data on a
> mapped drive on the server. Bad teachers! In this case, I just delete the
> profiles that were unnecessarily created and delete them and leave the one
> that was originally created. 95% of the time, it works just fine with that.
> Now looking at the thread you just posted explains pretty much everything
> about the problem, well done for that research.
>
> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles a
> computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my speciality
> is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the moment. Once I
> get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to start showing me the
> ropes on the servers, except I do have my own server, namely a dedicated
> Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my precious saved Ghost images,
> ready for deployment.
>
> Ramon
>
>
>
> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in 7
> minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
>
> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to the
> >domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it takes her
> >to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to view all the
> >accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was USER.DOMAIN format.
> >All the others had created similar formatting and even the ALL USERS
> >profile had a duplicate in the format of ALLUSERS.PCNAME
> >
> > I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I said
> > to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come across
> > what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said "Unknown" Uh WOW?
> > Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS. I had problems with
> > this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted it and went to NTFS
> >
> > I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles SID
> > and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to the
> > new profile back to the old profile.
> >
> > http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
> >
> > I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
> > everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
> > "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
> >
> > What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
> > waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Keith Chilton, MCP
> > Data Services Technician
> > River Valley Financial Bank
> > 430 Clifty Drive
> > Madison, IN 47250
> > 812-273-4949 ext 348
> > Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
> >
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Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

I have seen this before. This happens when a user logs out but something is
still running that prevents the profile from being unloaded from the
registry. When the user logs back in (without rebooting first) and then a
new profile is created with .001 on the end of the name.

Jeff

"Cruwl" <Cruwl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E7CF030-140E-44B7-98D0-3E3E0E1D0CA8@microsoft.com...
>i see this pretty often on the network here.
> Our official stance on the issue is a complete new profile.
> We rename the local and the roaming profile and just transfer all user
> data
> to the new profile.
>
> The thing i see most often compared to that link tho is that our network
> seems to do it mostly on windows 2000, we just rolled out XP a few months
> ago
> and i cant recall seeing it happen on one of those boxes tho.
>
>
> --
> NMCI Support Analyst
> Soon to be MCP and MCDST
>
>
> "Ramon De Bruijn" wrote:
>
>> I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it
>> has
>> been using for the past months and starts creating a
>> USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000
>> profile all by itself, sometimes even USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or
>> USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time there were 5 of the same User
>> Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of these under Documents & Settings
>> for each User, go figure at least 50 users would use the computer at our
>> school on a given day, that's alot of profiles, so now and again, I just
>> re-image the computers, except the Teacher computers, where I have to be
>> careful not to loose any data, they didnt save to their personal data on
>> a
>> mapped drive on the server. Bad teachers! In this case, I just delete the
>> profiles that were unnecessarily created and delete them and leave the
>> one
>> that was originally created. 95% of the time, it works just fine with
>> that.
>> Now looking at the thread you just posted explains pretty much everything
>> about the problem, well done for that research.
>>
>> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
>> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles
>> a
>> computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my
>> speciality
>> is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the moment.
>> Once I
>> get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to start showing me the
>> ropes on the servers, except I do have my own server, namely a dedicated
>> Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my precious saved Ghost
>> images,
>> ready for deployment.
>>
>> Ramon
>>
>>
>>
>> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in 7
>> minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
>>
>> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
>> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> >I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to
>> >the
>> >domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it takes
>> >her
>> >to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to view all
>> >the
>> >accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was USER.DOMAIN
>> >format.
>> >All the others had created similar formatting and even the ALL USERS
>> >profile had a duplicate in the format of ALLUSERS.PCNAME
>> >
>> > I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I
>> > said
>> > to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come
>> > across
>> > what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said "Unknown" Uh
>> > WOW?
>> > Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS. I had problems
>> > with
>> > this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted it and went to NTFS
>> >
>> > I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles
>> > SID
>> > and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to
>> > the
>> > new profile back to the old profile.
>> >
>> > http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
>> >
>> > I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
>> > everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
>> > "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
>> >
>> > What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
>> > waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Keith Chilton, MCP
>> > Data Services Technician
>> > River Valley Financial Bank
>> > 430 Clifty Drive
>> > Madison, IN 47250
>> > 812-273-4949 ext 348
>> > Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
>> >
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Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

Ramon,

That is interesting. I don't think imaging is any kind of option where I
work. But it works well for you! I totally see your point of view on it. Do
you have any Windows 2000 Servers with active directory? How many PDCs do
you have? I was looking at mirrored disks last night as an alternative to
backing up our one Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory that we have. I
am not sure what route to go to back up the beast, but I know I had better
do it and soon

Keith

"Ramon De Bruijn" <mcp@debruijn.at> wrote in message
news:%2343KyMkVHHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it
>has been using for the past months and starts creating a
>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000 profile all by itself, sometimes even
>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time there
>were 5 of the same User Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of these
>under Documents & Settings for each User, go figure at least 50 users would
>use the computer at our school on a given day, that's alot of profiles, so
>now and again, I just re-image the computers, except the Teacher computers,
>where I have to be careful not to loose any data, they didnt save to their
>personal data on a mapped drive on the server. Bad teachers! In this case,
>I just delete the profiles that were unnecessarily created and delete them
>and leave the one that was originally created. 95% of the time, it works
>just fine with that. Now looking at the thread you just posted explains
>pretty much everything about the problem, well done for that research.
>
> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles a
> computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my
> speciality is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the
> moment. Once I get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to start
> showing me the ropes on the servers, except I do have my own server,
> namely a dedicated Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my precious
> saved Ghost images, ready for deployment.
>
> Ramon
>
>
>
> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in 7
> minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
>
> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to the
>>domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it takes
>>her to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to view all
>>the accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was USER.DOMAIN
>>format. All the others had created similar formatting and even the ALL
>>USERS profile had a duplicate in the format of ALLUSERS.PCNAME
>>
>> I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I said
>> to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come
>> across what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said "Unknown"
>> Uh WOW? Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS. I had
>> problems with this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted it and
>> went to NTFS
>>
>> I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles SID
>> and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to the
>> new profile back to the old profile.
>>
>> http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
>>
>> I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
>> everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
>> "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
>>
>> What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
>> waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Keith Chilton, MCP
>> Data Services Technician
>> River Valley Financial Bank
>> 430 Clifty Drive
>> Madison, IN 47250
>> 812-273-4949 ext 348
>> Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
>>
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>> Footer****
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>

Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

Yea, I see this a lot too, there is actually a app you can download from
Microsoft that is supposed to ensure users become fully logged off when they
log off and should prevent the new profiles. I don't recall what it was or
exactly where I seen it but I bet if you searched around you could find it.
I didn't think much of it because it would mean having to install or push
that out to all our client machines and its just not a big deal atm for us
we have to many other major projects going.





"Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
news:OhNZmbtVHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Ramon,
>
> That is interesting. I don't think imaging is any kind of option where I
> work. But it works well for you! I totally see your point of view on it.
> Do you have any Windows 2000 Servers with active directory? How many PDCs
> do you have? I was looking at mirrored disks last night as an alternative
> to backing up our one Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory that we
> have. I am not sure what route to go to back up the beast, but I know I
> had better do it and soon
>
> Keith
>
> "Ramon De Bruijn" <mcp@debruijn.at> wrote in message
> news:%2343KyMkVHHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it
>>has been using for the past months and starts creating a
>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000 profile all by itself, sometimes even
>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time there
>>were 5 of the same User Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of these
>>under Documents & Settings for each User, go figure at least 50 users
>>would use the computer at our school on a given day, that's alot of
>>profiles, so now and again, I just re-image the computers, except the
>>Teacher computers, where I have to be careful not to loose any data, they
>>didnt save to their personal data on a mapped drive on the server. Bad
>>teachers! In this case, I just delete the profiles that were unnecessarily
>>created and delete them and leave the one that was originally created. 95%
>>of the time, it works just fine with that. Now looking at the thread you
>>just posted explains pretty much everything about the problem, well done
>>for that research.
>>
>> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
>> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles
>> a computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my
>> speciality is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the
>> moment. Once I get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to start
>> showing me the ropes on the servers, except I do have my own server,
>> namely a dedicated Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my precious
>> saved Ghost images, ready for deployment.
>>
>> Ramon
>>
>>
>>
>> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in 7
>> minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
>>
>> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
>> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to
>>>the domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it
>>>takes her to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to
>>>view all the accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was
>>>USER.DOMAIN format. All the others had created similar formatting and
>>>even the ALL USERS profile had a duplicate in the format of
>>>ALLUSERS.PCNAME
>>>
>>> I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I
>>> said to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I come
>>> across what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said
>>> "Unknown" Uh WOW? Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS.
>>> I had problems with this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted
>>> it and went to NTFS
>>>
>>> I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles SID
>>> and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing to
>>> the new profile back to the old profile.
>>>
>>> http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
>>>
>>> I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
>>> everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
>>> "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
>>>
>>> What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
>>> waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Keith Chilton, MCP
>>> Data Services Technician
>>> River Valley Financial Bank
>>> 430 Clifty Drive
>>> Madison, IN 47250
>>> 812-273-4949 ext 348
>>> Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
>>>
>>> ****River Valley Financial Bank, Internet Email Confidentiality
>>> Footer****
>>> Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If
>>> you
>>> are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for
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>>> to
>>> anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message, and notify us
>>> immediately. If you or your employer does not consent to Internet email
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>>> conclusions
>>> and other information expressed in this message are not given or
>>> endorsed by
>>> my firm or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorized
>>> representative independent of this message.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

I didn't mention it before but you can use regedit to manually unload the
user's hive under HKEY_USERS.
Jeff

Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

Do you know the name of that program?


"Jeremy Hudnall" <german_flyj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uJ$FLhvVHHA.1636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Yea, I see this a lot too, there is actually a app you can download from
> Microsoft that is supposed to ensure users become fully logged off when
> they log off and should prevent the new profiles. I don't recall what it
> was or exactly where I seen it but I bet if you searched around you could
> find it. I didn't think much of it because it would mean having to install
> or push that out to all our client machines and its just not a big deal
> atm for us we have to many other major projects going.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
> news:OhNZmbtVHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Ramon,
>>
>> That is interesting. I don't think imaging is any kind of option where I
>> work. But it works well for you! I totally see your point of view on it.
>> Do you have any Windows 2000 Servers with active directory? How many PDCs
>> do you have? I was looking at mirrored disks last night as an alternative
>> to backing up our one Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory that we
>> have. I am not sure what route to go to back up the beast, but I know I
>> had better do it and soon
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> "Ramon De Bruijn" <mcp@debruijn.at> wrote in message
>> news:%2343KyMkVHHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it
>>>has been using for the past months and starts creating a
>>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000 profile all by itself, sometimes even
>>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time
>>>there were 5 of the same User Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of
>>>these under Documents & Settings for each User, go figure at least 50
>>>users would use the computer at our school on a given day, that's alot of
>>>profiles, so now and again, I just re-image the computers, except the
>>>Teacher computers, where I have to be careful not to loose any data, they
>>>didnt save to their personal data on a mapped drive on the server. Bad
>>>teachers! In this case, I just delete the profiles that were
>>>unnecessarily created and delete them and leave the one that was
>>>originally created. 95% of the time, it works just fine with that. Now
>>>looking at the thread you just posted explains pretty much everything
>>>about the problem, well done for that research.
>>>
>>> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
>>> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles
>>> a computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my
>>> speciality is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the
>>> moment. Once I get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to
>>> start showing me the ropes on the servers, except I do have my own
>>> server, namely a dedicated Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my
>>> precious saved Ghost images, ready for deployment.
>>>
>>> Ramon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in
>>> 7 minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
>>>
>>> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to
>>>>the domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it
>>>>takes her to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to
>>>>view all the accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was
>>>>USER.DOMAIN format. All the others had created similar formatting and
>>>>even the ALL USERS profile had a duplicate in the format of
>>>>ALLUSERS.PCNAME
>>>>
>>>> I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I
>>>> said to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I
>>>> come across what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said
>>>> "Unknown" Uh WOW? Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS.
>>>> I had problems with this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted
>>>> it and went to NTFS
>>>>
>>>> I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles
>>>> SID and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing
>>>> to the new profile back to the old profile.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
>>>>
>>>> I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
>>>> everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
>>>> "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
>>>>
>>>> What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
>>>> waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Keith Chilton, MCP
>>>> Data Services Technician
>>>> River Valley Financial Bank
>>>> 430 Clifty Drive
>>>> Madison, IN 47250
>>>> 812-273-4949 ext 348
>>>> Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
>>>>
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>>
>>
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Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

What subkey Jeff? or a name for it so i could do a search?

"Jeff" <jeff@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:uWJr$jvVHHA.1432@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I didn't mention it before but you can use regedit to manually unload the
>user's hive under HKEY_USERS.
> Jeff

Re: what do you guys think of this crazy problem?
 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


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"Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
news:uinOquvVHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

> Do you know the name of that program?
>
>
> "Jeremy Hudnall" <german_flyj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uJ$FLhvVHHA.1636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Yea, I see this a lot too, there is actually a app you can download from
> > Microsoft that is supposed to ensure users become fully logged off when
> > they log off and should prevent the new profiles. I don't recall what it
> > was or exactly where I seen it but I bet if you searched around you could
> > find it. I didn't think much of it because it would mean having to install
> > or push that out to all our client machines and its just not a big deal
> > atm for us we have to many other major projects going.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
> > news:OhNZmbtVHHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> Ramon,
> >>
> >> That is interesting. I don't think imaging is any kind of option where I
> >> work. But it works well for you! I totally see your point of view on it.
> >> Do you have any Windows 2000 Servers with active directory? How many PDCs
> >> do you have? I was looking at mirrored disks last night as an alternative
> >> to backing up our one Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory that we
> >> have. I am not sure what route to go to back up the beast, but I know I
> >> had better do it and soon
> >>
> >> Keith
> >>
> >> "Ramon De Bruijn" <mcp@debruijn.at> wrote in message
> >> news:%2343KyMkVHHA.5060@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >>>I get this alot when the user profile doesn't want to use the profile it
> >>>has been using for the past months and starts creating a
> >>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.000 profile all by itself, sometimes even
> >>>USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.001 or USER.LOCALCOMPUTER.002 and so on. One time
> >>>there were 5 of the same User Profile. Sometimes there are a couple of
> >>>these under Documents & Settings for each User, go figure at least 50
> >>>users would use the computer at our school on a given day, that's alot of
> >>>profiles, so now and again, I just re-image the computers, except the
> >>>Teacher computers, where I have to be careful not to loose any data, they
> >>>didnt save to their personal data on a mapped drive on the server. Bad
> >>>teachers! In this case, I just delete the profiles that were
> >>>unnecessarily created and delete them and leave the one that was
> >>>originally created. 95% of the time, it works just fine with that. Now
> >>>looking at the thread you just posted explains pretty much everything
> >>>about the problem, well done for that research.
> >>>
> >>> I support over 900 users in a K-12 School (Students & teachers and
> >>> Administrators :)), Laptops, Desktops, Macs *Ugh* and whatever resembles
> >>> a computer and the 9 Servers we have in an AD Enviroment. Though my
> >>> speciality is desktop support and I am blue in the face with that at the
> >>> moment. Once I get my MCP, I want to start pushing my supervisor to
> >>> start showing me the ropes on the servers, except I do have my own
> >>> server, namely a dedicated Symantec Ghost Solutions Server, where all my
> >>> precious saved Ghost images, ready for deployment.
> >>>
> >>> Ramon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If it gets too much or time consuming, I then just image the machine in
> >>> 7 minutes using Ghost and the day is good again.
> >>>
> >>> "Keith Chilton" <kchiltonREMOVETHIS@rvfbank.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:eiCsg7hVHHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >>>>I was at work today and got a call from a Win 2000 prof user joined to
> >>>>the domain. I get to her station and when she logs into the domain it
> >>>>takes her to a brand new empty profile. I check out Windows Explorer to
> >>>>view all the accounts the computer had on it. The one being used was
> >>>>USER.DOMAIN format. All the others had created similar formatting and
> >>>>even the ALL USERS profile had a duplicate in the format of
> >>>>ALLUSERS.PCNAME
> >>>>
> >>>> I was expecting her profile to be corrupt, but NOT ALL OF THEM. So I
> >>>> said to myself I better check this PC out this is really strange. I
> >>>> come across what the Local Disk C: says for the file type... It said
> >>>> "Unknown" Uh WOW? Major problem here..... I know for a fact it is NTFS.
> >>>> I had problems with this PC not even a month ago and totally formatted
> >>>> it and went to NTFS
> >>>>
> >>>> I ended up going into the registry by the way and found the profiles
> >>>> SID and it's ProfilePath key and changed it from where it was pointing
> >>>> to the new profile back to the old profile.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...vironment.html
> >>>>
> >>>> I didnt want to spend all day on it.. Rebooted, she logged in and
> >>>> everything was back to normal.. even the file system said NTFS and not
> >>>> "Unknown" like it was earlier... LOL
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you guys make of all that nonsense? I was happy to not have to
> >>>> waste an entire day on it. I had other stuff to do!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Keith Chilton, MCP
> >>>> Data Services Technician
> >>>> River Valley Financial Bank
> >>>> 430 Clifty Drive
> >>>> Madison, IN 47250
> >>>> 812-273-4949 ext 348
> >>>> Phone (812) 273-4949 Ext. 348 Fax (812) 265-6730
> >>>>
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> >>>> and other information expressed in this message are not given or
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> >>>> my firm or employer unless otherwise indicated by an authorized
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >