Re: Profile

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From: Enkidu (enkidu_at_xyzcliffpxyz.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:45:36 +1200

On Mon, 24 May 2004 21:38:22 +1200, Enkidu <enkidu@xyzcliffpxyz.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 23 May 2004 09:37:54 -0500, "Annette" <Samm@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>What would cause a profile to go bad? I'm miffed by this on our network and
>>am not sure how to troubleshoot this. The PC will boot to logon and then
>>hang. Is there a good place to go and read about this on the internet or
>>could someone give me some pointers on how to repair?
>>
>Are you using Roaming profiles? If so you could delete the locally
>stored version of the user's profile by, I think, right clicking the
>My Computer and clicking the User Profiles tab. Select the user
>(Domain/user) and it should fetch the profile from the server when the
>user next logs in.
>
>If you use local profiles, you can still delete the profile, but the
>user will lose all customisations.
>
>But first, I would check that there is ample disk space of the
>machine. Lack of disk space should not cause a hang, but a message,
>but it's worth a check.
>
The assumption that I made above is that other users (eg local
Administrator) could log in and that the problem was with one user,
hence Annette's mention of profiles. If the assumption is wrong, then,
obviously, the above "solution" does not apply. Duh! Brain fade....

Cheers,

Cliff

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