Corrupted User Profile?

[David Frost]

Hello,

We have a user who is trying to log into a specific
computer (running W2KSP4). Once he enters his username and
password, the login script runs, and that's it. No
taskbar; no icons. He can CTRL+ALT+DEL, to bring up Task
Manager. From there, I can start Outlook, but it won't
work right. But, I can't even start explorer.exe; says
access to the file is missing/denied/whatever. It's only
on this one computer; he can log in to another computer in
the same room just fine. We've tried deleting his profile
folder under "Documents and Settings"; didn't help. One
tech support guy said to make sure he had permissions to
the "Documents and Settings" folder (which we accomplished
by making him a Power User on that system); didn't help.

We're fresh out of ideas, and the user's going crazy (and
trying to drive us crazy!). So any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

Sincerely,
"David Frost"

 

[Matt]

Hi

The same thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago in a
domain. I could log onto every other computer but one I
couldn't. Any other users could.

The admin ran a disk check/scandisk. Go into my computer
(the PC not working) and right click the drive, click
properties and then tools. Click the first one and go
through a full check. It may take a while. I think there
were some bad parts on the drive and it just happened to
effect my profile and no one elses. I was getting Access
Denies errors to my directory (local one copied from the
server) as well.

I'm pretty sure that fixed it Hope it helps. If not,
I'll ask him what else he did.


Matt.