My Document folder

[Bob Brannon]

Hello Shain,

It only happened to the calculator. I will wait to hear from you. Thanks
for looking into this.

Regards,
Bob


Hello Bob,

Thanks for the update. The calc.exe not showing up except in the list of
processes is normal. This is because it was being run non-interactively.

If this happens with any job you schedule to run at logon, then this is a
different story. I will do some testing and see if I can reproduce the
problem.

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[Shain Wray [MSFT]]

Hello Bob,

I tested on my Winxp sp1 machine and did not have this problem. So, it
looks like you may have some corruption that I have never seen before.

Lets try creating another Profile and see if the problem occurs there. To
create a new Profile do the following -

1. Go to Control Panel and open User Accounts
2. Add a new user with a different name and make sure they have Admin
rights.
3. Logoff and then logon as that user.
4. Now test renaming the My Docs folder with a scheduled task that begins
at startup

Let me know what happens.

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--
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Microsoft PSS Security Team

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[Bob Brannon]

OK, I did your test and the problem does not recur. So now what? Please
don't tell me to delete the user account with the problem! It's way to
personalized and I don't really want to have to redo everything?!

Bob

Hello Bob,

I tested on my Winxp sp1 machine and did not have this problem. So, it
looks like you may have some corruption that I have never seen before.

Lets try creating another Profile and see if the problem occurs there. To
create a new Profile do the following -

1. Go to Control Panel and open User Accounts
2. Add a new user with a different name and make sure they have Admin
rights.
3. Logoff and then logon as that user.
4. Now test renaming the My Docs folder with a scheduled task that begins
at startup

Let me know what happens.

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit. Thanks!

 

[Shain Wray [MSFT]]

Hello Bob,

Well, it would appear that something in your user account is causing a
problem. You could rename your profile, log back in with your account to
create a new one and then transfer the data you want. This can be tedious
but tools like the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard will likely copy back
the corruption.

293118 HOW TO: Use Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=293118


Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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[Bob Brannon]

Hello Shain,

I hope you get this since it has been a while. To jog your memory I changed
the scheduled task that was causing the conflict to start at specific times
rather than at logon and that fixes the problem. However, on 1/8/04 I let
windows update upgrade my video driver (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400). After
that, the problem of reverting 'Brannon's Documents' back to 'My documents'
recurred again on startup after everytime I renamed it back to 'Brannon's
Documents'. So, I reverted the driver back to an earlier one, and the
problem does not occur. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?


--
Bob Brannon


Hello Bob,

Well, it would appear that something in your user account is causing a
problem. You could rename your profile, log back in with your account to
create a new one and then transfer the data you want. This can be tedious
but tools like the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard will likely copy back
the corruption.

293118 HOW TO: Use Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=293118


Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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[Shain Wray [MSFT]]

Hello Bob,

Well, that is an interesting one. I am not sure how the driver is changing
that, it sounds more like the Nview software would be doing this. My
suggestion would be to go to www.nvidia.com and download the most recent
driver from there and test. If it still does the same thing, then you need
to contact Nvidia as it is their software that is causing this.

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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[Bob Brannon]

Thanks, I'll try that.


Hello Bob,

Well, that is an interesting one. I am not sure how the driver is changing
that, it sounds more like the Nview software would be doing this. My
suggestion would be to go to www.nvidia.com and download the most recent
driver from there and test. If it still does the same thing, then you need
to contact Nvidia as it is their software that is causing this.

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit. Thanks!
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