Re: Mysterious profile change on desktops



Are you using roaming profiles?? Is this fairly new behavior on those four
computers?? Have these users recently not been able to logon to their
computers with their domain accounts? Are these computers SP4 with current
updates applied??

They should not simply be losing their local user profiles unless the
computers have been unjoined from the domain and then joined again as I have
seen that happen where a new profile was generated after that when the
domain user logged back on again.

Your best bet is probably to copy their old profile over to their new
profile or try modifying the registry as shown in the KB article below.

Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314045

"itsmeok" <itsmeok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have 4 pcs running Window 2000 pro and they all have (at different times)
lost their original profile when they log on to the network causing them
to
lose access to icons and data files.

Why is this happening and how do I restore these units to their original
profile to prevent having to copy everything back over to their existing
profile?


.



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