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Corrupt profiles... tip/ plus ??

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by tronman

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We have noticed lots of Windows 2000 profiles getting easily corrupted. Yes! we back them up, then have user log on and recreate one.
What's up with this? Many different issues can be solved with this in IE,Outlook, you name it.
Nice tool, but I am wondering what's hosing these profiles?Internet and apps can eat profiles for lunch!! Any one with some insight! Do we have to move these profiles and recreate all the time or is there something to help with discovering what is wrong with the corrupt profile???

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by ann777

With Outlook profiles:
Most always, the Outlook profile gets corrupted when the user does not exit out of Outlook and just issues the Shutdown command at the toolbar level (ie leaving Outllok and other apps to close out with Windows).

Sometimes that'll be fine, but sometimes not. It depends on how much Outlook processing has to be done and whether or not Outlook successfully closes before Windows terminates power.

Best option is to teach users to close out Outlook before shutting Windows down. That will eliminate most (if not all) of the Outlook profiles corrupting.

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Windows 2000 profiles usually do not get corrupted... but if you have a lot of laptop users that are connecting remotely.... it's possible that a Windows User Profile can get corrupted because of inconsistent dial-up lines/drop-outs/noise etc. If it's VPN, then that will eliminate some of this.

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