Re: Profile/My Documents issue

"Bob S" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm setting up my new Dell Computer with WinXP. On the first
day a bunch of programs disappeared from the system tray,
although they were still running in the background. Dell
tech support said that the way the problem was showing
itself seemed somewhat unique (we worked on it for an hour,
it seemed). They said that the profile evidently was
corrupted, and they recommended that since I had not yet
installed very many programs and had not transferred any
data as yet, the best solution was simply to delete my user
profile and start over. Sounded fine to me. We did it
several days ago and everything now works ok.

Here's the only issue. In the original set up I named my
user account "Bob." The way Dell approached the issue was to
first create a new account, which they called "Test." They
then deleted the old "Bob" profile and renamed "Test" as
"Bob."

As stated, the new profile is now fine. But the path to My
Documents is now through "Test" rather than through "Bob":
that is, it's located at "C:\Documents and Settings\Test\My
Documents," even though when I look in User Accounts through
the Control Panel the account appears as "Bob." Dell tells
me that this is because My Documents keeps the path name as
originally set up, and that nothing can be done about it.

Now when I do things that require a path name through My
Documents, I have to use "Test," not "Bob." This is a petty
annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.

Is there any way to "fix" this?

Thanks.
--

Bob S.


Go back to Control Panel -> User Accounts and rename the Bob account to Test.
Create a new account named Bob.
Log on at least once with the Bob account.
Log off and log back on with an account other than Test or Bob that is a
Computer Administrator.
Note:You might want to create another administrative account named Temp which
can be used just for this procedure. This account can be deleted after the
procedure is complete.
Log on with the Temp account.
Go to Control Panel and double click System.
Click on the Advanced tab.
Click on the Settings button in the User Profile section.
Click on the Test profile and hit the Copy To button.
Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\Bob.
Click OK twice.
Click Yes when asked if you want to overwrite the contents of this folder.
Once all the files have been copied, click OK twice.
Log off the Temp account and log on as Bob.

For more info, take a look at these articles.

How do I copy a user profile in Windows XP? Why is the COPY TO button grayed
out?
http://www.petri.co.il/copy_user_profiles_in_windows_xp.htm

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Create a duplicate user profile with a different name
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/dupprofile.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan



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