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1029usr078198
Forum Admin
USA
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 Posted - January 19 2008 : 17:12:02
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If your Windows XP user profile becomes corrupted, you might be logged on with a temporary one, or just given a new one outright. In that case, all your email, My Documents and its subfolders, your Favorites, and Desktop will all either look different or simply be missing. Follow the procedure outlined below to reset your user profile to what it had been.
NOTE: Passwords do not survive this procedure.
ALSO NOTE: This procedure assumes a great deal of familiarity with computers. If, after reading this, you don't feel at ease with this procedure, call us.
1. Start a command prompt while logged into the damaged profile. (Start, Run, type CMD and press Enter)
2. Note the path shown at the MS-DOS prompt. This is the current path to your user profile.
3. Restart the computer and log in as a local Administrator, but not the damaged user. If you do, you won't be able to perform the next step.
4. Rename the damaged profile folder.
5. Log off and log in as the damaged user. Windows recreates your profile.
6. Restart again and log on as the Administrator. You must restart the computer to ensure that the newly recreated user profile is closed. If this is not done, some files will not copy when you get to step 8.
7. Set Explorer to "Show all files and folders" even the protected ones.
8. Copy (don't move) the old profile's documents and files to the user's new profile folder.
9. Log on as the newly repaired user and, if necessary, run a registry search & replace to find old folder names and reset them. Google the term, "registry search replace" to get a program for that purpose.
10. Use search to look for all .PST, .DBX, & .WAB files.
11. Right-click one file in the proper folder (the user's old, renamed profile folder) and choose "Open containing folder".
12. Create a folder somewhere else to hold this information, preferably off the root of the C: drive.
13. Copy the files to the folder.
14. Import the files into Outlook (.PST) or Outlook Express (.DBX=Messages, .WAB=Address Book).
Note: The procedure described above will fix things with a minimum of dependencies on the original folder structure. But another Microsoft KB article you may wish to consider is called: How to restore a user profile in Windows 2000
Hope it helps,
David |
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To Reset A User Profile
