Ken someone help me

[KCav]

My name is Ken.
I created a user account named Ken on my notebook running Windows XP.
I expected to see a subaccount in Documents & Settings named Ken.
Instead I found KEN.AVS1

How can I stop XP from combining a user name and the machine name?
When I added KCAV, KCAV.AVS1 appeared.
All I wanted was KCav.

Ken someone help me?

 

[John John (MVP)]

Was (is) this machine joined to a domain?

John

 

[KCav]

No, the machine is not part of a Domain. It is part of a workgroup.

 

[KCav]

Hi John John,

My NTUSER.DAT is slightly corrupt, but only slightly, I suppose.

I would like to know what is causing Windows to combine a user's name with
the machine name when creating a new user account. Could it be that this
condition came by chance. I did not create an instruction.

 

[John John (MVP)]

When your profile folder is corrupt, or when you lose read permissions
on your profile folder Windows cannot log you on using your profile.
Being that you supplied valid credentials to log on to Windows, instead
of locking you out because it can't read or access your profile folder
Windows logs you on and creates a new profile for you. Being that the
Documents and Settings folder already includes a folder with your
UserName Windows creates a folder named <UserName.ComputerName>. If in
turn that new profile also becomes inaccessible the next time you log on
Windows will create numbered profile folders <UserName.ComputerName.000>
the next time it will create <UserName.ComputerName.001> This is
explained here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324734

If the machine is joined to a domain and if you log on to the domain
first then logon locally the local account will be <UserName.ComputerName>.

You can copy data from your corrupt profile to the new one:

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

John

 

[KCav]

Thank you for helping me understand Windows default procedure when unable to
access read permission for a user profile.

I have deleted all users except Ken from Windows directory, and used REGEDIT
to purify the Registry of obsolete user names. And I copied the contents of
KEN.AVS1 into Ken before entering Safe Mode to change the permissions on
Ken.AVS1 before deleting it from Documents and Setting folder.

I have two problems:
1) Office 2003 wants me to put a CD in my optical drive. I don't have a CD
for Office 2003.
2) Favorites are not seen by Internet Explorer

3)

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[John John (MVP)]

Thank you for helping me understand Windows default procedure when unable to
access read permission for a user profile.

I have deleted all users except Ken from Windows directory, and used REGEDIT
to purify the Registry of obsolete user names. And I copied the contents of
KEN.AVS1 into Ken before entering Safe Mode to change the permissions on
Ken.AVS1 before deleting it from Documents and Setting folder.

I have two problems:
1) Office 2003 wants me to put a CD in my optical drive. I don't have a CD
for Office 2003.

I don't know how to fix that, you should probably ask on an Office group.

2) Favorites are not seen by Internet Explorer

Maybe this can help: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/iefaq.htm#favorites

John