Documents and Setting

[jaymax2U]

Hello,
Win2K, XP have "Documents and Setting" folders that contains User's settings. Frequently I am finding new User's settings created following the pattern "username"; "username.hostname"; "username.hostname.000"; and "username.hostname.001 ... etc".

What type of events are causing these changes? The resulting files are not the same, is there away to synchronize them to be the same, for ex. desktop changes? How can they be prevented? and if perchance they do occur how can I roll them back?

Thanks!

 

[vacunita]

username usually would be a local user to the machine. username.hostname normally refers to a domain user profile.

username.hostname.XXX usually indicates profile corruption, as windows can no longer load the profile, it creates a new one.

When the new one becomes corrupt, it creates another one. appending an incremental number to differentiate each new profile.

The first thing to do, is find out why the profiles are becoming corrupted.

Run disk diagnostics on the hard drive to make sure it is in good working condition.



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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Geates]

I experieced this issue for years and have concluded exactly what vancuita has said. Profile corruption often leads to Windows creating a new profile. Considering a profile already exists for username, Windows will append other (sometimes cryptically) information. This is why the profiles may have .hostname.xxx

-Geates

 

[goombawaho]

Agreed that corruption of the file system is causing the issue. Have you had to power off the computer with the power switch due to freeze-ups?

I would do a CHKDSK first and see what comes up at the very end summary (bad sectors). Doing a second one wouldn't hurt if it comes up with a lot of items to fix.

If bad sectors are present, run the manufacturer's hard drive utility as mentioned. IF there's any hint of failure - get your data off there ASAP.

 

[linney]

What causes an Administrator.000 login to appear on it's own?
thread779-742316

How To Restore a User Profile in Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q324734/#appliesto