Work experience |

 Your Ad Here

WinXP user profile directory problems |


Sometimes windows XP users profile becomes corrupt and windows creates directory named username.000 or username.pc-name with new user settings, my documents and so on. So it seemes, that you loose all e-mails, al my documents and everything what was on desktop. Don't panic, there is possibility, that old users profile is stil in C:\Documents and settings directory. Just to ensure open Documents and Settings folder and look for your username dir. If it is still here, you'll need to edit registry to point to your old dir. Login as Administrator, open registry editor (backup your whole registry before!) by pressing start -> run, type regedit and press enter.
User security descriptions

Now browse to KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
There are all users SID's (user Security Identifiers) they looks something like this S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXX.
Now you need to identify, which SID is yours. Look at "ProfileImagePath" value and find "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\username.000" or "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\username.pc-name" value.
Change it to "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\username" (just change to your old profile's path).
Reboot pc and try to login to that user. If everything is ok, you should login to your account and find all your old data.

Comments:

Date: 06/20/2008 at 10:09:08
Poster: Mahesh

This solution not usefull to me.

Name:
captcha