Re: Missing user profile folders?

Thank you for your help!

Nick

On Mar 23, 10:17 am, Dragos CAMARA <drago...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
hi,
Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 always delete the user profile of users
belonging to the local Guests security group when users log off. Windows XP
and Windows Server 2003, continue to delete the profile of guest users, only
when the computer is joined to a domain. So if your user saved the document
on guest's my documents when the user was logged off the guest profile was
deleted :). you can try some sofware for undelete to see if the document
still exists on the hdd.
--
Dragos CAMARA
MCSA Windows 2003 server

"np_hominoid" wrote:
Hello all,

I'm having an odd problem with an XP laptop, on which users log in
using a limited guest account. The laptop was taken offsite (so no
connection to our domain controller) and a user logged into this guest
account, opened Microsoft Word, typed a document, and saved to the
desktop. They returned the laptop to me, and I logged in using a
Domain Admin account (while on our network) in order to backup the
document. When I navigate to the guest account folder under C:
\Documents and Settings\GuestUser, I see only two folders: Cookies,
and Local Settings. There is no Desktop or My Documents folder, or
indeed any other folders. Both the Cookies and Local Settings folder
contain only a few files pertaining to IE5.

Could anyone clue me in to what happened, and whether there is any
chance of recovering the document? I have performed a search for all
files modified on the particular day, thinking perhaps the file could
be in a Temp folder, but have had no luck. Any help would be very much
appreciated!

Thanks,
Nick


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