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W2K-Unwanted multiple profiles

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by valcovinnie

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(W2K PC on a WNT network) Everything works fine initially however after several reboots and logins to the domain, both as the user and the administrator, a new profile is created for each account. Even though the original profiles still exist theyare no longer recognized by the computer. I also have a very strange folder showing up in each profile with numbers for the name. I have already completed a reformat of the HD and new install of OS with no luck.

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by abubin

The numbers are the GUID of an already deleted user. But sometimes, if your domain have problem, it will take a few seconds to resolve that GUID user name. If after waiting for sometime, the numbers does not change to a username, then most probably the user has already been removed from the domain. That is also why you can't login back to the old user as I suspect it has been deleted.

You see, windows2k assign a GUID to each user that you create. Each GUID is unique. Even if you remove a user and then create it back, the GUID will be different. So, that might explain why you can't login as old user. You can safely delete the profile with GUID as it is an orphaned GUID.

Or maybe your domain have problems that the GUID could not resolve to the username. I am not sure how it works with winNT but in Win2k domain, it is due to AD and/or DNS server.

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