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User profile problem
I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems
with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question, it is recognised but the PC does not pick up the user detail, it just reverts to the default settings for desktop/start menu/programs etc. I have checked the Registry and the data under Current User appears to be intact as well as the Profile information under Windows/Profiles for the user. When you select change user from the Start Menu it states the correct user. I checked the .pwl's and although the profile had been used, the date on the pwl file did not tie in with the recent access which to me means that something is adrift between the profile name, the information and the password. Renaming the pwl did not make any difference. Any suggestions? Alan |
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User profile problem
What is your logon in Control Panel, Network?
I do not get a "Change User" option in my Start menu. Regards, ern. "Alan" wrote in message ... I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question, it is recognised but the PC does not pick up the user detail, it just reverts to the default settings for desktop/start menu/programs etc. I have checked the Registry and the data under Current User appears to be intact as well as the Profile information under Windows/Profiles for the user. When you select change user from the Start Menu it states the correct user. I checked the .pwl's and although the profile had been used, the date on the pwl file did not tie in with the recent access which to me means that something is adrift between the profile name, the information and the password. Renaming the pwl did not make any difference. Any suggestions? Alan |
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User profile problem
I don't have a Network Logon, the logon is set to Microsoft Family Logon and
with that, when Start is selected, it lets you log off the current user, stating the name of the current user. I think I now have corrected the original problem. It appears the user profile in question had a corrupted User.dat file. I found this by trawling through the Registry using Registry Lite searching on user name and user.dat. Eventually I found that the shell folder for the current user was pointing to the default settings, not the profile settings. Luckily, having previously backed up everything a few days before, I managed to replace the current user.dat with the old user.dat from the backup and it worked. Alan "ernie" wrote in message ... What is your logon in Control Panel, Network? I do not get a "Change User" option in my Start menu. Regards, ern. "Alan" wrote in message ... I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question, it is recognised but the PC does not pick up the user detail, it just reverts to the default settings for desktop/start menu/programs etc. I have checked the Registry and the data under Current User appears to be intact as well as the Profile information under Windows/Profiles for the user. When you select change user from the Start Menu it states the correct user. I checked the .pwl's and although the profile had been used, the date on the pwl file did not tie in with the recent access which to me means that something is adrift between the profile name, the information and the password. Renaming the pwl did not make any difference. Any suggestions? Alan |
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Thank you for the feedback. I am unfamiliar with "Registry Lite" but glad
you caught the problem. Regards, ern "Alan" wrote in message ... I don't have a Network Logon, the logon is set to Microsoft Family Logon and with that, when Start is selected, it lets you log off the current user, stating the name of the current user. I think I now have corrected the original problem. It appears the user profile in question had a corrupted User.dat file. I found this by trawling through the Registry using Registry Lite searching on user name and user.dat. Eventually I found that the shell folder for the current user was pointing to the default settings, not the profile settings. Luckily, having previously backed up everything a few days before, I managed to replace the current user.dat with the old user.dat from the backup and it worked. Alan "ernie" wrote in message ... What is your logon in Control Panel, Network? I do not get a "Change User" option in my Start menu. Regards, ern. "Alan" wrote in message ... I have Win 98SE with User profiles enabled. Recently, I have had problems with the Profiles not working correctly. The most recent occasion was that the PC has to all intents and purposes lost the profile of a particular user. When you logon using the name and password of the user in question, it is recognised but the PC does not pick up the user detail, it just reverts to the default settings for desktop/start menu/programs etc. I have checked the Registry and the data under Current User appears to be intact as well as the Profile information under Windows/Profiles for the user. When you select change user from the Start Menu it states the correct user. I checked the .pwl's and although the profile had been used, the date on the pwl file did not tie in with the recent access which to me means that something is adrift between the profile name, the information and the password. Renaming the pwl did not make any difference. Any suggestions? Alan |
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