Adminstrator Account Created but not needed

[QBob]

Hello, thanks for reading. I am trying to find some information on an issue
I have had a couple times. I will have a user who calls and says all her
settings are gone. After checking out her system there is a new account
created called <username>.<pcname> jsmith.computer1. The user account
<username> jsmith is still there with all the users orginal settings, but it
is now looking at a new user account that was created out of the blue. I
can log the user out, login as someone else and rename the account, but the
system itself is now set to always login with the jsmith.computer1. I can
also just copy the users information from jsmith to jsmith.computer1 and
everything works fine again, but then I have account entries in the
Documents and Settings that I do not want or need there. I am interested in
any information on why this happens, fixes for this and any documentation/KB
articles anyone has seen. I have found a couple, but nothing too exciting.
Thanks again.

 

[QBob]

Sorry, the name is not descriptive. In one instance it was the
administrator account in the other it was the user account, but the issue
was identical. Thanks!

 

[Dave Patrick]

The profile became corrupt for one reason or another.

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:
| Hello, thanks for reading. I am trying to find some information on an
issue
| I have had a couple times. I will have a user who calls and says all her
| settings are gone. After checking out her system there is a new account
| created called <username>.<pcname> jsmith.computer1. The user account
| <username> jsmith is still there with all the users orginal settings, but
it
| is now looking at a new user account that was created out of the blue. I
| can log the user out, login as someone else and rename the account, but
the
| system itself is now set to always login with the jsmith.computer1. I can
| also just copy the users information from jsmith to jsmith.computer1 and
| everything works fine again, but then I have account entries in the
| Documents and Settings that I do not want or need there. I am interested
in
| any information on why this happens, fixes for this and any
documentation/KB
| articles anyone has seen. I have found a couple, but nothing too
exciting.
| Thanks again.
|
|

 

[Galen]

In Dave Patrick <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

The profile became corrupt for one reason or another.

Yip...

The information here should be pretty much the same for 2k...

Corrupted Profile: Windows XP :
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/corruptprofile.html

It *should* be pretty much the same. As I look over it I can't think of or
see anything that's different really.

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http://dts-l.org/

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existence." - Sherlock Holmes