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Great program , Great Link! Thanks Michael! I will strongly consider
implementing this in our next system-wide upgrade. It definitely will
prevent problems.. I am pro-active in fighting PC problems and do not want
to sit back and let them come to me!

"Michael D. Alligood" <> wrote in message
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> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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> "Keith Chilton" <> wrote in message
> news::
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>> Do you know the name of that program?
>>
>>
>> "Jeremy Hudnall" <> wrote in message
>> news:uJ$...
>> > 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" <> wrote in message
>> > news:...
>> >> 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" <> wrote in message
>> >> news:%...
>> >>>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" <> wrote in message
>> >>> news:...
>> >>>>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!
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
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It's going to be a SID. On a workstation there will only be a couple of em
listed. I usually drill down to HKEY_USERS\<really long
SID>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer and look for the
logon user name or you can use FIND to search all of the HKEY_USERS for the
username. Check the task manager first to make sure that the users doesn't
have any open processes.
Jeff

"Keith Chilton" <> wrote in message
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> What subkey Jeff? or a name for it so i could do a search?
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> "Jeff" <> wrote in message
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>>I didn't mention it before but you can use regedit to manually unload the
>>user's hive under HKEY_USERS.
>> Jeff
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