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Archie
Windows XP Home Edition SP2 + post SP2 patches up to May 13, 2008. DHCP from
Linksys router, Running MSSQLServer in background.
Have been running this computer for several years. I booted into safeMode
to run some virus checks and when I rebooted my user profile had been
changed. I did some research in these discussion groups and came across the
post of 4/15/2008 “Losing Windows XP Profile Association†from John.
Further research in C:\Documents and Settings showed that the original
Administrator and HP_Owner directories where still there and still had the
correct information but two new ones had been created.
I now have:
Administrator and
Administrator.computerName (not actual computername used)
HP_Owner and
HP_Owner.computerName
The main log in was HP_Owner and that directory seems to have all the
correct information in the directories but does not have a NTUSER.dat. There
is a ntuser.ini, hpothb07.dat, hpotho7.tif . Not sure how to read this dat
file but look at it in word I can see errors associated with Documents and
Settings\HP_Owner.
All three other directories have NTYSER.dat files with the HP_Owner one
being the largest. HP_Owner was the normal sign on and HP_owner was set up
as Admin I believe.
The computerName it is attaching is the computer name in System Properties
to identify the computer on the net work. It has now shown up in User
Profiles as ComputerName\Administrator and ComputerName\HP_Owner with no
reference to the two original ones that do not have the computer name
appended but are still there.
I checked and C:\Windows\System32\config.. has the info from the directory
HP_Owner.ComputerName that it is log into.
I noticed that John said that after he straightened it out by deleting
directories that it returned after he rebooted. I expect it is some new
network rules in naming in the latest MS updates and will continue so it is
probably good to move to the new naming.
Several things:
1) I have used safemode lots of times and never had this occur.
2) This looks like a new naming policy from Microsoft but how do I get my
original configuration back and still present their new naming?
3) John mentioned and showed the contents of some log. Where is this and
how do I read it?
4) What can validly be done with the C:\Documents and Settings directories?
5) Can I move the NYUSER.dat file between directories?
6) Can I move the New directory with the attached computername and then
rename the old one to that name to satisfy the user name now stored in the
user profiles?
7) Since the HP_Owner was assigned Administrator it seems to have the
NYUSER.dat file in all directories except the original HP_Owner directory,
which is the one I need to use. It only seems to have log files. How do I
put a NTUser.dat back in here as the one that was here and was moved to
HP_Owner.ComputerName is the largest one as that was the one used daily?
Sorry this is so long winded, and Thanks for the help.
Archie
Linksys router, Running MSSQLServer in background.
Have been running this computer for several years. I booted into safeMode
to run some virus checks and when I rebooted my user profile had been
changed. I did some research in these discussion groups and came across the
post of 4/15/2008 “Losing Windows XP Profile Association†from John.
Further research in C:\Documents and Settings showed that the original
Administrator and HP_Owner directories where still there and still had the
correct information but two new ones had been created.
I now have:
Administrator and
Administrator.computerName (not actual computername used)
HP_Owner and
HP_Owner.computerName
The main log in was HP_Owner and that directory seems to have all the
correct information in the directories but does not have a NTUSER.dat. There
is a ntuser.ini, hpothb07.dat, hpotho7.tif . Not sure how to read this dat
file but look at it in word I can see errors associated with Documents and
Settings\HP_Owner.
All three other directories have NTYSER.dat files with the HP_Owner one
being the largest. HP_Owner was the normal sign on and HP_owner was set up
as Admin I believe.
The computerName it is attaching is the computer name in System Properties
to identify the computer on the net work. It has now shown up in User
Profiles as ComputerName\Administrator and ComputerName\HP_Owner with no
reference to the two original ones that do not have the computer name
appended but are still there.
I checked and C:\Windows\System32\config.. has the info from the directory
HP_Owner.ComputerName that it is log into.
I noticed that John said that after he straightened it out by deleting
directories that it returned after he rebooted. I expect it is some new
network rules in naming in the latest MS updates and will continue so it is
probably good to move to the new naming.
Several things:
1) I have used safemode lots of times and never had this occur.
2) This looks like a new naming policy from Microsoft but how do I get my
original configuration back and still present their new naming?
3) John mentioned and showed the contents of some log. Where is this and
how do I read it?
4) What can validly be done with the C:\Documents and Settings directories?
5) Can I move the NYUSER.dat file between directories?
6) Can I move the New directory with the attached computername and then
rename the old one to that name to satisfy the user name now stored in the
user profiles?
7) Since the HP_Owner was assigned Administrator it seems to have the
NYUSER.dat file in all directories except the original HP_Owner directory,
which is the one I need to use. It only seems to have log files. How do I
put a NTUser.dat back in here as the one that was here and was moved to
HP_Owner.ComputerName is the largest one as that was the one used daily?
Sorry this is so long winded, and Thanks for the help.
Archie