Strange behaviour regarding profile/users

[Douglas]

I have XP Pro at home, only two users are listed under user accounts/
Douglas and Guest.

I have been using Douglas for a while now, no problem at all. Then a week
ago I boot up my PC as normal but it is acting like it is the first time I
have ever logged on. It wants to do the tour, my mail is gone, my desktop
and icons are gone, it is like a fresh setup. I looked under C:\documents
and settings and I have a user Douglas and a user Douglas.workhome. I
copied all my data over to the new profile, douglas.workhome and all was
well.

Then yesterday the same thing happened, now I have user
douglas.workhome.0000 under the C:\documents and settings. I haven't done
anything to the computer and this just randomly keeps doing this. Any
suggestions?

Thank you in advance,
Douglas

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

That is very strange for a workgroup computer. Normally, when a profile
is corrupted, XP will say so and tell you it is using a temporary
profile that isn't saved. Have you been switching back and forth between
workgroup and domain?

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Douglas" > wrote in message
...
> I have XP Pro at home, only two users are listed under user accounts/
> Douglas and Guest.
>
> I have been using Douglas for a while now, no problem at all. Then a
week
> ago I boot up my PC as normal but it is acting like it is the first
time I
> have ever logged on. It wants to do the tour, my mail is gone, my
desktop
> and icons are gone, it is like a fresh setup. I looked under
C:\documents
> and settings and I have a user Douglas and a user Douglas.workhome. I
> copied all my data over to the new profile, douglas.workhome and all
was
> well.
>
> Then yesterday the same thing happened, now I have user
> douglas.workhome.0000 under the C:\documents and settings. I haven't
done
> anything to the computer and this just randomly keeps doing this. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Douglas
>
>

[Douglas]

Kent,

This computer has never joined a domain, always been in a workgroup.

Douglas
"Kent W. England [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
> That is very strange for a workgroup computer. Normally, when a profile
> is corrupted, XP will say so and tell you it is using a temporary
> profile that isn't saved. Have you been switching back and forth between
> workgroup and domain?
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
> "Douglas" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have XP Pro at home, only two users are listed under user accounts/
> > Douglas and Guest.
> >
> > I have been using Douglas for a while now, no problem at all. Then a
> week
> > ago I boot up my PC as normal but it is acting like it is the first
> time I
> > have ever logged on. It wants to do the tour, my mail is gone, my
> desktop
> > and icons are gone, it is like a fresh setup. I looked under
> C:\documents
> > and settings and I have a user Douglas and a user Douglas.workhome. I
> > copied all my data over to the new profile, douglas.workhome and all
> was
> > well.
> >
> > Then yesterday the same thing happened, now I have user
> > douglas.workhome.0000 under the C:\documents and settings. I haven't
> done
> > anything to the computer and this just randomly keeps doing this. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Douglas
> >
> >
>