profile problem

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some how win 2k lost my profile name, so in the system
properties-user profiles the only two listed are
Administrator and account unknown, the admin account is
500k and my old account is 2m. problem is I cannot find
this set up data in the sytem to replace the name and the
copy to button isn't active.

any help would be appriciated!
 
Possibly you deleted your user account, or perhaps the computer used to be
in a domain (but is now in a workgroup) and you used a Domain user account
(or vice versa). Deleting a user account (e.g. via Computer Management,
Local Users and Computers, Users) does not delete that user's profile
folder. In any case, once you get the user account situation sorted out,
you can associate any existing profile with that new account by modifing a
registry entry.

1. logon with the new user account (e.g. newuser), then logoff and logon as
Administrator
2. Start, Run, key regedit
3. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. there will be a key there for each user account identifiied by the user
account's SID
5. click on each one, examining the value of the ProfileImagePath entry.
When you find the one for the newuser account, double click on and change
the value to be the path to the profile folder for the old user account.
The path is usually something like:
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\username. Click OK
 
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Possibly you deleted your user account, or perhaps the computer used to be
in a domain (but is now in a workgroup) and you used a Domain user account
(or vice versa). Deleting a user account (e.g. via Computer Management,
Local Users and Computers, Users) does not delete that user's profile
folder. In any case, once you get the user account situation sorted out,
you can associate any existing profile with that new account by modifing a
registry entry.

1. logon with the new user account (e.g. newuser), then logoff and logon as
Administrator
2. Start, Run, key regedit
3. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. there will be a key there for each user account identifiied by the user
account's SID
5. click on each one, examining the value of the ProfileImagePath entry.
When you find the one for the newuser account, double click on and change
the value to be the path to the profile folder for the old user account.
The path is usually something like:
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\username. Click OK

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YES your right!
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all fixed thanks for the help
 
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