On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:05:16 -0800, Chris Berry wrote: >>"Brian Hoppe" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>I have a user whose folder name in documents and settings keeps >>getting changed by windows. If his user name is stan, his folder in >>c:\documents and settings is called "stan". Well, over a period of >>time (maybe 6 months) you come back and his folder name is now >>stan.DOMAINNAME (where DOMAINNAME is the name of our AD domain). >>Then, a few months later, it is stan.DOMAINNAME.000. Does anyone know >>why windows does this, and if there is anything you can do about it? > >This happens when windows can't properly load your profile for whatever >reason, it's basically the computer's best guess as what your profile should >be. For example, if you have a roaming user profile and you've logged into >this computer before, but this time it can't connect right, it will load >your old one and rename it. Why can't it remove the profile correctly but leaves almost empty profile-folder on the client (if remove roaming profile when logging off is on)?? BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmaci.uu.se # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46-18-4714482 >> 5 signals >> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46-701-718023 # BMC, Box 574, Uppsala University Fax: +46-18-471-4474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm