Re: Win XP assigns me new "user" folder - creates problem - how can I get it to use my old "user" folder?

When this happens there MUST be something logged in the Event Log. If the permissions are properly set I suspect that your user profile is corrupt or the ProfileImagePath is incorrect. See quick procedure here to determine if the profile is corrupt: http://www.avid.com/onlinesupport/supportcontent.asp?productID=2&contentID=8214&typeID= (Written for Windows 2000 but practically the same for Windows XP).

If the profile is corrupt create a new one and copy your data to the new profile.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

John

t,mf2kg wrote:

I set it up to allow EVERYONE to have read and execute permission but
it did not work.

I looked at another account and copied the permissions on that account
it had "Administrators, SYSTEM and account owner will full control on
the account. I did the same for my user folder.

I then changed the name of the new folder that Windows was trying to
use to some other arbitrary name.

Finally I changed my old user/home folder to the name that Windows XP
was trying to use. I did all this under another Administator account
that I have.

After all this when I try to log into my account - Win XP states that
is is loading my personal settings. After sometime it comes back and
kicks me back to the Windows login screen - so for some reason it fails
to load my personal settings and log me in...

HELP - it seems that I am getting no where with this problem....

Thanks for any suggestions and pointers...

t,mf2kg wrote:

I was not able to see any items in the Events log that could be related
to this problem so it does not seem to have anything logged from this
problem.

I will try to do what you suggested and allow EVERYONE to have read &
execute permission. In addition this suggestion makes me think that I
will look at the permissions on other 'user' folders and copy that on
to my "user/home" folder.

What I then plan to do is to sign in as the administrator and delete
the new 'user/home' folder that Win XP has created. I then hope that
Win XP will then automatically take me back to my original 'user'
folder which will get me back to the environment that I had taken many
months to customize ....

Thanks for the help

Ted M.
John John wrote:

Make sure that the "EVERYONE" group has at least read & execute
permission on the C:\Documents and Settings\ folder. Maybe your profile
got corrupted when you did the copying. Are any errors recorded in the
Event Log when the computer starts and you attempt to logon?

John

t,mf2kg wrote:


I took out the hard drive from my laptop to back it up to a hard drive
on my desktop PC. I had to change the ownership to be able to acces the
folders on the drive which I had put into a USB external box/enclosure.

When I put the drive back into my laptop after the backup, I run into
problems where Win XP Pro (SP2) does not use my old "user" folder but
decides to create and use a new "user" folder. The new folder it
creates and uses is "C:\Documents and Settings\users\user.pcname" where
it previously had used my "user folder" which was "C:\Documents and
Settings\users\user".

I have checked the ownership of the older "user folder" to make sure
that I have ownership of the folder are the files under it. I have
tried different things to get Win XP to use my older "user/home folder"
with no luck.

This problem means that my Outlook does not as previously, now I have
to register and startup my Outlook version, that my Firefox settings
don't work, my Quick Start settings don't work etc... HELP!!


Ted M.



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