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Win98 Display Setting & a network

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by david baudais, isp

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I have the following situation:
I have 5 computers on a Peer to Peer Network. All the machines are Disparate, 4 are running Windows 98 and 1 is running Windows 2000.

I have set up my display apperance to be a Spruce Scheme while logged into the network. After rebooting the computer in question and relogging back into the network the display settings changes to High Contrast Black scheme. Nothing I do can get me back to the original setting unless I don't log onto the network. In this case everything is fine. All computers have local profiles and not roaming ones. Can anyone help in suggesting how I can keep these display settings whether or not I am logged into the network? No viruses exist, all files and links have been fixed and seemto be functioning properly.
Thank You.

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by 1stladytech

I have seen this before with a corrupted profile, try to delete or rename the profile without saving the desktop settings. Sometimes you can just create a new user login and the problem will go away. It isn't a fix, but it is a workaround.

Goodluck,

Vickie

by david baudais, isp

Again thanks for your help Vickie. The solution I found was to replace C:\windows\user.dat and c:\windows\profiles\\user.dat files with uncorrupted ones. This did the trick except I had to load up Office XP again because the user part of the registry was corrupted and make sure all the rest of the links were ok. Thanks Again.

by david baudais, isp

Thanks Vikie for the advice. I did try to delete the profile on the machine and then recreated it. The same problem came back up after the new profile took over. I am going on the assumption that may be a roaming profile is on another machine. I will be shuting down each computer this weekend plus recreating all profiles on the other computers. I am relevied to hear that I am going in the right direction. Again Thanks for the help.

by timthetoolman

Hi,

From memory, when you log into a network you get enother profile created for you. You may have noticed the two profiles in the explorer?

The simple way to fix this would be to simply set up your profile how you like it when not logged intothe network and do it again when you are logged in.

There may be some small changes you want when logged in, anyway.

Cheers,
Tim.

by david baudais, isp

Thanks for your help TimTheToolMan. The solution I found was to replace C:\windows\user.dat and c:\windows\profiles\\user.dat files with uncorrupted ones. This did the trick except I had to load up Office XP again because the user part of the registry was corrupted and make sure all the rest of the links were ok. Thanks Again.

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