[windows2000] Re: Documents and Settings

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:32:33 +0100

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

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