Win XP Created new user accounts

[Frank Pulsucki Jr.]

I am not sure when this happened or exactly why but my "users" are created
with new accounts. For example I created a account "Firstname LastName"
and that was the name of the folder in Document and settings on D: drive.
Now for whatever reason it has created on it own "Firstname Lastname .
machinename" as my storage folder in document and settings. i.e.: Jim
Smith.jsmith

Only trouble that I now have is all my favorites and documents are in the
old "firstname Lastname" folder and new folder has none of that!

I recently was creating a slipstreamed SP2 Windows XP Pro disk using
original XP Pro disk and of course needed to install Dot net framework to
use the suggested program (do not remember program for sure but did do the
job!!!) so I do not know if that is when it happened!

How can I return back to my original folder so my favorites and such are
there?? I tried renaming the folder from Win98 dualboot but it just ignored
and created a new folder so that did not work! As a stop gap I manually
copied all of the missing info but it seems I get errors and I am curious if
possible due to this quirk or if something else happened to cause this??
Newly created account have same odd behavior. Any suggestions??

Frank

 

[Guest]

It appears that you ahve made a small error when reinstalling Windows at some
time and thus all user accounts have been recreated and there are inactive
user accounts in the computer.

All user accounts can be managed via Control Panel > User Accounts.

May I suggest you create a new user account with the name of Verify System.

Once this is done, go to: C:\Documents and Settings
look for the folder named Verify System: it may have machine name after it.

Now you know exactly where the other Active user accounts are located and
can copy any files / folders from the other inactive account.

Once done, delete all inactive account folders.