Re: Why windows profiles changing

this happens when more than one profile exist on the machine with the
same name. here is an excerpt from a MS KB:

Windows 2000 and Windows XP handle duplicate down-level account names
as well but in a slightly more intuitive manner. A suffix is placed on
the username of the profile that is either the name of the domain, if
the user account is a domain account, or the name of the computer, if
the user account is a local user account. If, by chance, another user
with the same name from the same domain or computer logs onto the
machine, Windows 2000 or Windows XP adds a .000 suffix to the domain or
computer name. If the action happens again, it then starts incrementing
the .000 as well.

CAMC1 wrote:
Hello,
We use Windows 2000 (SP4) Active Directory domain to login, but for some
reason, randomly, some user profiles have changed for no apparent reason.
Example: A user who logged into domain from a PC,
used to have his/her profile was named like
C:\Document and Settings\LOGINID
but now, same person (noticed when person got a new desktop)
Profile is now looks like
C:\Document and Settings\LOGINID.DomainName

What is going on?

Thanks
MC

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