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

From: Dave Rado (drado@onetel.net.uk)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: "Dave Rado" <drado@onetel.net.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:15:26 +0100

Hi Sheenan

In what respect is that different to what I did?

Regards

Dave

"Shenan" <shenans@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:upfaa63c45mse7@corp.supernews.com...
| 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
| >
| >
|
|