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Win 2000 profiles getting corrupt

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by abrouss

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I have had problems with profiles getting lost (or currupted) in Win2000 Pro.
How can I backup or copy profiles, to be restored if this happens again.

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Al

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by maholtz

If you lose your user profile, log in as the LOCAL administrator and change the following registry key to point to the old profile directory:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\[User UID]\ProfileImagePath
Change %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\"username".000 (or whatever the new profile name is) to
%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\"username".

Then try to re-login. Everything should come back online.

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