spw1964 said:
Having a mental block about what I did wrong here. On one machine
I have normal users with C:\Documents and Settings\Stephen for
example. On another, I have C:\Documents and
Settings\Stephen.MACHINE_NAME instead.
1. What did I do wrong?
Nothing.
2. How do I stop the user profile being associated with this
directory? I've copied the profile and then deleted it, but then
the user directory is created again as C:\Documents and
Settings\Stephen.MACHINE_NAME.001 instead!
- Use Files and Settings Transfer Wizard - export the profile to another
directory.
- Delete the user account - files and all.
- Check the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
under each SID number for the "ProfileImagePath" value and see if any of
them still match trhe profile you erased. If so, delete the entire subkey
(the SID number directory.)
- Reboot.
- Log in as an administrative user.
- Create the account you want.
- Log out.
- Log in as the new user.
- Check the directory structure - did it do what you wanted?
I never have gotten the fascination with wanting the Documents and Settings
directory name to match the username. After all - the path is not something
difficult to get when logged in as the user and something easily parsed when
not logged in as the user. As the user - it is the environement variable
"USERPROFILE" (referred to in batch as %USERPROFILE%) and there are dozens
of ways of accessing this in scripts and such.
It's not like most people will ever see the documents and settings directory
contents - nor anything requiring the names to match as most installations
could care less - because the assumption (usually true) is that the home
user bought their computer and their username may be "Fred' but their
profile directory is "Owner". *grin*
