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by wescrock

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O.K.... so... I work in the Library IT industry and we have a domain setup for all users in it... My co-worker decided he was going to put his computer on my desk for a week... i don't know why...

I played a little joke on him and set his domain user account (that was originally an administrator) to a guest account.

He restarted and didn't know that I did that...

3 days later, he logs on and it, according to him, creates a new profile... he isn't able to find ANY of his documents...

is this because of what I did? he had been complaining about how unreliable the laptop had been for the past 3 weeks...

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by demosthanese

Can you not find his documents by manually logging on to the local administrator account and browsing to the documents and settings folder?

by wescrock

I haven't seen the comp since... i won't til monday..

But he knows how to do all that... and im sure he tried to manually try to find them

by rob miners

can create a New Account for him and use your Backup to restore his Home Directory. ;)

by wescrock

What backup are you talking about?

He did a system restore... but said it keeps trying to create a new profile every time he logs on

by rob miners

said that you are on a Domain. You changed his Domain logon to a Guest account. I take it that there is no Home Directory associated with his Profile. The Backup would be from the overnight Backups that are performed on the File Server. He should also have a Backup of anything that is of importance to him on the File Server. You are saying that the PC was already unstable, I think that you gave it a kick along. You could try a Repair/Upgrade Install but I dont think it will help. I think a rebuild is more likely that is if there are no Hardware problems on the PC.

by wescrock

well... his user@domain.blah.com account is a network adming enabled account through the domain controller...

on his local machine, i gave it guest privaleges (thus taking away his Administrator rights [local])

would that overright his profile?!

it took 3 days before all this happened and after a restore, it creates a new profile every time he logs on.

by rob miners

us the steps that you took to achieve this. Like what did you open, how did you get there.

by boxfiddler

to one who did a very thoughtless thing. I commend you. For whatever my commendation is worth.

by wescrock

(in vista)

I went to the icon at the top of the start menu which brings you to User Accounts

I hit Change Your Account Type

and then selects Guest User (or something to that effect... but it was Guest.)

Sorry for the crappy answers I have been giving... im quite frustrated with this...

by kenone

First check the drive, if that checks out create a new profile, migrate his old profile to his new profile (carefully) and then delete the old profile. I don't know why but I see corrupted profiles in XP quite often.

by wescrock

The profile has been over written it looks like...

shows user(41).domain.com

This sucks...

by bizzo

Have you admitted to him that you removed his admin rights? And have they now been restored?

If not, it might be what your setup does with guest accounts, it might delete the profile of guest accounts when logging out, hence it recreating it every time he logs in.

by rob miners

can I take that there is more than one Admin Account on this PC. You have an Admin Account. Logon with your Administrator Account and try to fix the Account by adding the Admin privelages. I dont think that it will work though. You may have to delete the Account and connect it to the Domain. Get him to log back on and it should pick up his profile from the Server.

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