Re: Win2000 creating new user profile while old still exists

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Thanks for the response Dave, but the PCs are not newly joined.
They've been part of the domain for quite a while now. It just seems
like whats happening is that Windows will randomly overlook the user's
profile with C:\D and S and create a new one. Then, Windows will
update the users' ProfileImagePath within the registry to the newly
created directory.

Strangest thing....

Dave Patrick wrote:
This is normal and expected behavior. On a newly-joined-to-the-domain PC if
you logon to the pc first, then to the domain you would end up with two
profiles.
%username%
and
%username%.%userdomain%
Else if you logon to the domain first, then to the pc you would end up with
%username%
and
%username%.%computername%

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"FerrisUML" wrote:
| Hello all and thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give.
|
| Problem im having is that randomly, users will call and say that their
| icons an such are missing and their Outlook is not setup. Well, after
| examing closer, whats happening is Windows is completely overlooking
| the original user profile and creating a new one with the syntax
| "username.domain_name". I check the Event Log, but there no
| information on a corrupt profile/registry at all. Anyone have any idea
| what may be causing this to happen? Thanks.
|
| FYI
| We're a 2000 domain with a mix of 2000/XP clients and I don't think
| this problem is isolated to just 2000.
|

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