Re: Mysterious user profiles

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:30:00 -0400

Hi Jeff,

You did a reinstall of WinXP "over the top", didn't you? Not a good idea, as
this is the sort of mess it creates. You may need to start/run "control
userpasswords2" and delete unused accounts from the advanced tab/advanced
button/users folder. You want to be careful that you are deleting the
accounts from the old installation and not the new one. It is highly likely
that the profiles appended with .windows or .laptop are the *current* user
folders. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
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> "Jeff" <jeffxg@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:eQthN49HEHA.2924@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> I've installed xp pro over a xp home version.  I had a little trouble and
>> tried a few times.  What I'm left with is this.  I keep finding a profile
>> which is for example administrator.laptop (laptop is the computer name)
>> under 'documents and settings'.  This is in addition to the 
>> 'Administrator'
>> folder.  When I delete the 'Administrator.computer-name'  folder (while
>> logged on as a different admin account), and log back in as 
>> administrator,
>> Windows tells me that it can not find the profile and creates the
>> administrator.computer-name folders all over again.  How can I 
>> re-associate
>> the Administrator account with the Administrator folders?  I also have
>> another mysterious folder called all users.windows as well as all users
>> under documents and settings.  I also can not delete the All 
>> Users.WINDOWS
>> folder as well.  I get a message sayiing that it's a windows system 
>> folder.
>> Any one else seen this?
>>
>>
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