User Profiles

[Guest]

Under User Accounts I have 1 account called "Mary1". Under Documents and
Settings there are 2 folders. One called Mary and one called Mary1. I would
like to have only one Profile called Mary. I have tried to create an
additional account and copy everything from Mary1 to Mary under System
Properties/Advanced but my Computer didn't give me that option. I can't just
delete Mary1 because that is a System folder. The only folder currently
showing up under System Properties/Advanced is Mary1. I have XP SP2 Home
Edition. How do I clean up this mess?

 

[NewScience]

Rename the Mary folder under C:\Documents and Settings (be logged in as an
administrator account).
Then create a new User named Mary.

Once created (you must login as Mary first in order for Mary's environment
be created), copy files from each of the two accounts and merge them into
the C:\Documents and Settings\Mary folder.

Once everything is merged you can Remove Mary1 account using User Accounts
and just delete the old Mary folder.

 

[NewScience]

Are you using Control Panel | User Accounts? Not Run control userpassword2.
It sounds like that you had an entry in the registry under ProfileLists for
Mary, so when you created Mary, it creates based on the username and the
computername.

You can go into the registry and change the name in the Profilelists
ProfileImagePath for MARY.MARY-HOME to be Mary and rename the C:\Document
and Settings\Mary.MARY-HOME to be Mary. And then merge the data from the
other folders.

The registry key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Under that key are all the registered users on your system. They are
represented as SIDS (S-1-5-21-*). Each has a value name in right panel:
ProfileImagePath.

Look at each one and see what duplicates are there. You should see your
Mary1, Mary and now your Mary.MARY-HOME.

Using Control Panel | User Accounts, delete each user BUT keep data files
.... it will ask you. You may want to backup the user accounts (C:\Documents
and Settings\[USERNAME]) accounts prior to removing the accounts.

Then check the registry keys and check that the entries for Mary1, Mary and
Mary.MARY-HOME are gone. If these entries are not gone, you cannot add a
new User that has the same name in one of those keys

Then add Mary, you should not have a problem. Then merge information from
the backup folders. Once the data has been merged, you can remove the
backups.