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Unrecognized W2K Profiles

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by valcovinnie

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HP Vectra VL420 PIV 1.7ghz running W2K Pro on a NT 4.0 network.

I loaded the W2K OS, configured the network and logged onto the domain. I then proceeded to load several business applications. After that whenever I perform a shutdown or restart and try to log back on to the machine with the domain profile I just created (shortcuts, mappings, printers etc.) the profile is unrecognized. It loads a brand new profile even though the first profile is still listed under c:\Documents & Settings.I get multiple profiles with profile names like user.domain001, user.domain002, user.domain003 and so on. This happens with both the domain user account and the domain admin. account. I have reloaded the OS and even sent the PC back for a replacment. HP was unable to pinpoint the problem. Any bit of advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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by joseph moore

TechNet Article ID: Q169144 is what you need.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q169/1/44.ASP
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There is a Local Group called Users. This problem can happen when the user account you are using is NOT a member of this Users group. Normally, the Default Users global group is a member of this Users local group.
I would check here. Make sure that Domain Users global is a member of Users local group.

Hope this helps.

by valcovinnie

The information that you provided was helpful, but did not resolve the problem. The problem "went away" after we installed a retail version of XP Professional. We believe that there is some conflict with HP's OEM version of W2K and the application software installed on this PC. We've installed dozens of other PCs with the W2K OS/application software combination without any problems, but this was the first time we've attempted this on a P4. Thanks for your help.

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