Sorry to sound so thick but what am I searching for? The incorrect path which the icons are being placed? If so I have done this and it doesn't appear in regedit....both on a local PC and on the server.....so yes a more explicit suggestion would probably help me!!
The policy file is actually called 'ntconfig.pol' and I'm not sure how I would 'rehome' the local user profile. Is this possible in Policy Editor? Also what I would ideally like to do is find out how this problem occured because even after a clean install of NT Workstation the local PC still...
The config.pol wasn't there at first but after my protests they restored an old version from a backup tape which I edited to how it used to be and that works fine. As for the SAM database I am told that it was backed up and restored succesfully. But I'm not so sure because the old usernames in...
I work in an educational institute and have 200+ PC's running NT 4 Workstation. I have created a disk image by building one PC. I have logged on this PC using all student logon usernames. This has created local user profiles so that when a student logs on all the right icons and mapped drives...
You may have a faulty piece of hardware. Try starting the computer without some of your internal hardware i.e. remove the sound card, the video card if you have more than one bank of memory remove the extra bank so that you are left with (if need be) just power going into your m/board. If you...
I've seen this problem a couple of times in one case it was a faulty memory module so you could try swapping it out this would cause the 'freezing'. In the other case it was a faulty power supply i.e the PC would sporadically restart itself without warning, again it's worth changing the power...
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