mydocuments and desktop changes automatically to new path

[Guest]

every day when i first login to my windows xp system the desktop, mydocuments
and other settings related to my user profile chages automatically to new
folder, for instance today my mydocuments path is c:\documents and
settings\admin\My Documents, after shutting down the system and next day when
i login again the path of my mydocuments changes with some new folder created
in c:\documents and settings like c:\documents and settings\admin.00\My
documents\ , admin.01 etc so on every time, every time I have to copy my file
in my documents to the new path is there any solution to fix this problem

 

[Newbie Coder]

Srikanth,

Looking at what you wrote you have installed Windows over the top of an
existing copy

Open the registry editor:

Click START
Click RUN
Type 'regedit' (without quotes) & click OK
Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

In the right pane you can see where My Docs is pointing, chnge if this
points to the New Folder

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If you are logging on to a domain then make sure your Home Directory is
pointing in the corrent place

Also, you can check permissions to your profile

 

[Nightowl]

every day when i first login to my windows xp system the desktop, mydocuments
and other settings related to my user profile chages automatically to new
folder, for instance today my mydocuments path is c:\documents and
settings\admin\My Documents, after shutting down the system and next day when
i login again the path of my mydocuments changes with some new folder created
in c:\documents and settings like c:\documents and settings\admin.00\My
documents\ , admin.01 etc so on every time, every time I have to copy my file
in my documents to the new path is there any solution to fix this problem

Hi Srikanth

It could be that your original "admin" user profile has been corrupted
and Windows cannot log you on to it, so is creating a new profile each
time. If so, you'd need to create a new profile with administrator
privileges and copy your settings to it, then delete the original one
and all the .00, .01 etc. instances. This article explains how:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

Another reason could be that you've lost Full Control of your profile
folder. This article explains it and how to fix it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314045

I hope one of these helps. Let us know how you get on