Re: Documents and Settings subfolders

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:28:57 -0700

Hi Dave,

Thanks for clearing that up, as I was not too certain from
your post just when the first of the two was being created.

There are three circumstances I am aware of where this
happens, well, now maybe four.
1. if the first profile for the use has become unrecognizable
2. in a domain if domain account Joe and local account Joe
    both use the machine
3. if multiple boots installed on the machine end up using
    the same Documents and Settings for profiling

Your circumstance, where a newly defined account gets two
profile folders created on its first login is new to me.

What happens if you define a test account, log in, and then
do something like making a shortcut on the desktop and
check to see that it is in the D&S\account.computer profile.
Then log off and in as an admin, delete the D&S\account
profile and rename the D&S\account.computer profile to
be simply D&S\account ?

Was this system cloned ? 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Dave D" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0c0101c399b0$a0c33f70$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Roger - Thank you - and yes. But...what I'm asking is why
> is the system automatically creating TWO essentially
> duplicate user profile folders for ONE user account??
> P.S. - Other people I know with XP have not experienced
> this phenomenom. If they have a user named "joe", they
> only have one user profile folder, rather than one
> called "joe" and one called "joe.COMPUTER1".
> >-----Original Message-----
> >You cannot manually create user profile folders.
> >These are automatically created in the stand-alone
> >environment upon first login by the account.
> >
> >-- 
> >Roger Abell
> >Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
> >MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
> >"Dave D" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:028d01c39993$6e89c230$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Has anyone had this problem (feature)? I set up my brand
> >> new PC, with XP home edition already installed, with 4
> >> user accounts upon the first time boot up of the
> machine.
> >> These had first names associated with them and created
> >> folders under document and settings with the same names
> >> (i.e. - joe, bill, ted, mike). Then when each user
> account
> >> was accessed, it would create an almost duplcate folder
> >> (the duplicate one was about 10% larger in size) using
> the
> >> computer system name I also assigned during first time
> >> boot up of the PC (i.e. - computer1) as an extension, so
> >> that I would have both a joe folder and a joe.computer1
> >> folder. Deleting the duplicate folders only means they
> >> would be recreated next time that user account is logged
> >> into. These are not temp folders though - if you don't
> >> delete them, they stay. Anyone know what is causing
> this?
> >> Thanks much!
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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