machine profiles!!

I'm not sure what you mean by machine profiles. The things you mention - IE favorites, etc., - are stored in the individual user's profile. On Win2K, these settings are stored in the C:\Documents and Settings\[user name] folder. Probably what is happening is that when you change the machine name and then log on again, it is creating a new user profile for the user. If you look in the Documents and Settings folder, you'll probably see two profiles - one folder called [user name] and the other called [user name].001. To retrieve the original settings, you can just copy the folders from one profile to the other. Hope this helps!

When I clone machine-image it (in this case I am using WIN2K), and I change the computer name the user profile such us favorites and ie and netscape configurations is lost. Does any one know how to fix this?

First I like to say that I meant "user profile" instead of "machine profile". Second, I did what had been suggested but that did not help.