Re: Win Explorer crashes when checking drive properties
From: Steve Duff [MVP] (ergodic_at_ergodic-systems.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:43:39 -0700
Somebody has -- or at least Windows thinks something has --
your profile's ntuser.dat open when you aren't logged on. You aren't
running remote access sessions are you? Otherwise this
really shouldn't be happening.
Try creating an alternate account with full administrator
privileges and use that. See if you still have a problem.
You may have to resort to re-creating the profile folder
for the Administrator account.
Other than this, I'm going to suggest something I don't
normally resort to, which is to pop in your Windows CD
and run a "upgrade" to restore any missing settings.
(This will preserve your overall configuration, but you
will need to run service packs and critical updates back
on after you do this.)
This doesn't sound like a hardware problem any longer, but
it does sound very much like the aftermath of one.
Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
"John Smith" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:%23MhcBlzhEHA.356@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Steve - thanks for the reply, and there are indeed events with the same
> times as the extra folders.
>
> Two of these extra Administrator folders were created this morning,
> Administrator.OSWALD.003 at 7:58am and Adminstrator.OSWALD.004 at 9:02am.
> Event Viewer shows two errors in the Application Log at 7:58:08am and one in
> the System Log at 7:59:10am. Here are the details:
>
> 1. Application Log
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1000
> Date: 20/08/2004
> Time: 7:58:08 AM
> User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> Computer: OSWALD
> Description:
> Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
> default profile for the system.
>
> DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
> another process.
> -----
> 2. Application Log
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Userenv
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1000
> Date: 20/08/2004
> Time: 7:58:08 AM
> User: OSWALD\Administrator
> Computer: OSWALD
> Description:
> Windows cannot copy file C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT
> to location C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.OSWALD.003\NTUSER.DAT.
> Contact your network administrator.
>
> DETAIL - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
> another process.
> -----
> 3. System Log
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: DCOM
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 10010
> Date: 20/08/2004
> Time: 7:59:10 AM
> User: OSWALD\John
> Computer: OSWALD
> Description:
> The server {9F92FFA3-40D1-475A-9323-A39C705DAB86} did not register with DCOM
> within the required timeout.
>
> Thanks for any additional light you can shed.
>
>
> "Steve Duff [MVP]" <ergodic@ergodic-systems.com> wrote in message
> news:uFDTqRyhEHA.244@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > From the multiple posts you have listed here
> > I'm going to hazard a guess that you may have
> > some hardware issue still going on, or you
> > have a permissions problem on system files
> > someplace on the new drive.
> >
> > Windows creates these alternate profiles when
> > it thinks the name it wants to use is already used by
> > another account, or it believes that profile to
> > be corrupt and unusable -- in the latter case it
> > normally tells you at logon.
> >
> > You need to start by looking in the system and
> > application event log. There will undoubtedly be
> > events in there that may help in narrowing down
> > the cause.
> >
> > Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
> > Ergodic Systems, Inc.
>
>
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