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windows 2000 user profile pointing to wrong profile

I have a local user profile that points to the Administrator profile when logging on.

I have tried the two solutions as posted by CrazyOne and JatCan for the jbbarnes question "Desktop" pointing wrong profile.

The issue, everytime I log back on the local user it re-writes the shell pointer in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders to the Administrator profile.

Any suggestions as to why, or what I need to look at would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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smallbee

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Smallbee,

Thanks for the quick response.

The profile is not roaming. The user was logging on locally to his computer (ie: not part of the domain).

I checked the profile and had it pointing to x:\documents and settings\[User name] and still it would write the H_Key_Current... as Administrator.

The User was also assigned Administrator on the laptop.

Unfortunately, since posting this question, the User has left the company. I have contacted him to try your suggestion; but the technical resolution is not his concern. The User instead blew away the profile and started again. This is a pity as I would be interested to give it a try.

Thanks once again for your suggestion.

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Not having the ability to try it out I can't really comment.

smallbee

hmmm... I would rather know what was the result of trying ... anyway, thx for ur points