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More info?)
Let me apologize . . . oops, no grovelling.
I left out the important part: Yes, this user already exists and no, machine
is not a domain member. This is what is confusing me. I created an account
called Steve. Under docs & settings, I have Steve and Steve.OFFICE. If that
is what it "needs to do", then OK, I've just never seen it before, so I was
befuddled. I was just concerned that it would cause me trouble when using
the files and settings transfer wizard. Thanx for the help.
Your smart questions site is a hoot - should be required reading for all
posters. Thanx again!
Rip
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Ripper T Smith
rippertsmith<nospam>@comcast.net
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> My new xp pro machine is adding a folder to docs & settings that has
>> name of user - dot - name of machine. Example: Steve.Office. Why is
>> this happening? Each time I delete it, it is recreated. How can I
>> stop xp from doing this? I've not seen it before.
>
> Uhm...
> That is your profile.
>
> - Is the machine a member of a domain?
> - Do you log into the domain as well as the local machine?
>
> - If the machine is not a member of a domain, is there also a "Steve"
> username already there?
> - what happens if you rename the "Steve" user to "Steve.old" and then
> log off and log on as Steve.
>
> You realize it does not matter much what the path is to the profile...? I
> could create a user named "NotMyProfile", then rename the username to
> "Shenan" and now I log on/off as "Shenan" but my profile is stored under
> "C:\Documents and Settings\NotMyProfile".
>
> Why does the .NameofMachine happen?
> Well, could be a corrupt profile, could be the machine is a member of a
> domain and/or the "Steve directory already exists. Whatever the reason,
> it's creating the Steve.MachineName profile because that is what it needs
> to do.
>
> Now - if there is no "Steve" profile alreadiy in existence.. You could
> erase the directory again (as a different user of course) and then change
> the registry setting for the ProfilePath for Steve and then log on as
> Steve and let it create the new profile there..
>
> Start -> RUN -> regedit
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
>
> Look for the SID (the really nasty looking number starting with S-1-5
> usually) folder that when you select it on the left and look on the right
> in
> the value for "ProfileImagePath" has the value for the user you want to
> change. Change that to be the path you want it to be.. and then close
> the regedit and reboot.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
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