Re: Repost - can anybody help? Windows XP Profiles gobbled up all my data!

From: Shenan (shenans@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: "Shenan" <shenans@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:31:22 -0500

hahah
This is not a problem. Your DOMAIN profile *is* different than your local
profile.
However, with ONE registry entry, they can be the same:

Log in as an ADMINISTRATOR - not either of the accounts in question.
Look under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Find the entry that equates to your DOMAIN PROFILE(look at the
ProfileImagePath value). Change the ProfileImagePath value to match that of
your LOCAL PROFILE directory.

Reboot for good measure.
Done. 

--
Shenan
"Dave Rado" <> wrote in message news:OfcGX9#ZCHA.1744@tkmsftngp08...
> Hi all
>
> I recently bought a new laptop with Windows XP on it, and spent several
> weeks formatting it to have several partitions for different versions of
> Office, customising Win XP to be the way I wanted it, installing all my
> (50+) applications on it and customising them the way I wanted them to be,
> and transferring all my data to it from my old Windows 98 machine.
>
> I then took my new machine into work, connected to the network, and
> immediately got a rude shock, because although I logged in to the network
> using the same username as I use as home, instead of using my existing
> profile, it created a new one, using all the XP default settings, pointing
> to an empty My Documents folder instead of my own 3GB My Documents folder;
> and all of my applications lost their settings as well (e.g. Word was had
> all the default settings and was using Microsoft's templates, instead of
> having the settings I had created.
>
> I searched the Google groups and found that lots of people have this
> problem. I couldn't find any explanation as to why Microsoft think that
> laptop users wouldn't want to be able to use their own profiles when
logging
> into a network rather than have the default one imposed on them; but I did
> find a post in the archives which seemed to offer a solution: it said:
>
> ---------------
> - Open Regedit on laptop
>
> - locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
> - Scroll through the SID keys looking at the values for the
> "ProfileImagePath".  You should find 2 different paths (in 2 different SID
> keys) for the user that will look something like
> %SystemRoot%\Profiles\username and
%SystemRoot%\Profiles\username.domainname
> - Modify the path with the .domainname extension to be the same as the
> other.  Usually, this merely means removing the .domainname, so that both
> paths are %SystemRoot%\Profiles\username
>
> - Close regedit, logon using the domain account
>
> Now both accounts are sharing the single profile.
> ---------------
>
> That looked promising so I tried it. And when I logged back in to the
> network, guess what happened .... my personal profile just disappeared in
a
> puff of smoke! (Or rather, a new default profile was created, with my
name,
> overwriting my previous profile, containing no data apart from the default
> files). All my customisations were lost, all my data was lost. Restoring
> the registry settings to what they had been didn't bring my profile back.
>
> Although my data is no longer visible (even with hidden files visible), it
> must still be on my hard disk somewhere, because I have no more free disk
> space now than I had before the disaster happened (which means that, even
if
> I wanted to, I couldn't restore my data, because there's no longer enough
> free space for all of it!)
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Yours, hanging onto sanity by a thread,
>
> Dave
>
>

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