Re: Supervisor Account Corruption?

From: Todd Shillam (tshillam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:23:29 -0800

Stewart,

Regarding your 'Unknown' user profile, I've seen this quite a bit myself.
It appears the profile has been corrupted--this can even include the
'administrator' profile at times. To correct the problem, I've always
deleted the unknown profile and logged on as the respective user--Windows
recreates the user profile to include it's correct name afterwards. Just
keep in mind, there might be documents in that 'unknown' user profile. You
should check the profiles under C:\Documents and Settings\%USERPROFILE% just
to make sure.

Otherwise, I'm a little confused here--are you able to logon locally using a
user account that is part of the administrator group?

Respectfully,

Todd

"Stewart" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:994e01c3b6f0$a54e3c40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
Operating System:

Windows XP Home Edition w/ all current updates.

I originally posted a question about receiving the
following error message when attempting to set a password
for a scheduled task:

"0x8007007a: The data area passed to a system call is
too small."

The only feedback I received was to make sure the account
had admin privs but this was already the case.

I then attempted to change the account type to limited
for this account and it would not allow me to do this.
In the past I have done this and XP simply prompts the
user to select which profile to be used when logging in.
Since the account type could not be changed I started to
think that something was corrupted.

I then attempted to login using the Administrator account
and received the following error:

"Unable to log you on because of an account restriction".

Finally, I checked user profiles under System Properties
and there was an entry named "Unknown:.

I'm at a loss and would appreciate some feedback and/or
suggestions.

Thanks.

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