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Hi there, I'm in a fix and could use some help. A friend brought me her
PC because it had some Windows XP problems. While troubleshooting it, I
renamed her account's "usrclass.dat" file to see if Windows would
create a fresh one (the file seemed to be corrupt, according to the
event log). Well, what happened is that Windows instead created a whole
new User directory in "Documents and Settings" and attached her user
account to it!
Now I'm stuck -- her account is now without any documents or any of her
custom settings. Her old User directory is still there in Documents and
Settings, so no data has actually been lost (we can access all her
documents, but of course all the custom settings, Yahoo IM profiles,
etc. are unavailable).
How do I reattach her User account to the proper Documents and Settings
directory?
In other words, at first her account was stored in
\Documents and Settings\heather
but now, although that directory still exists, her account is using
\Documents and Settings\heather.PC
"PC" is the computer name. "heather.PC" is the new user directory that
Windows created automatically for some reason. Is there any way to make
Windows point back to the original "heather" directory??
Thank you so much!
Jeff
PC because it had some Windows XP problems. While troubleshooting it, I
renamed her account's "usrclass.dat" file to see if Windows would
create a fresh one (the file seemed to be corrupt, according to the
event log). Well, what happened is that Windows instead created a whole
new User directory in "Documents and Settings" and attached her user
account to it!
Now I'm stuck -- her account is now without any documents or any of her
custom settings. Her old User directory is still there in Documents and
Settings, so no data has actually been lost (we can access all her
documents, but of course all the custom settings, Yahoo IM profiles,
etc. are unavailable).
How do I reattach her User account to the proper Documents and Settings
directory?
In other words, at first her account was stored in
\Documents and Settings\heather
but now, although that directory still exists, her account is using
\Documents and Settings\heather.PC
"PC" is the computer name. "heather.PC" is the new user directory that
Windows created automatically for some reason. Is there any way to make
Windows point back to the original "heather" directory??
Thank you so much!
Jeff