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Thanks for the help, that worked, but any idea what would cause this? 
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Thanks for the help, that worked, but any idea what would cause this?

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Hello,<br />
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A user on our domain logged off her Windows 2000 machine Friday and all was well. &nbsp;Upon logon this morning, all of her settings are gone. (Background, Shortcuts, Mail, My docs) &nbsp;Upon further inspection, under the &quot;documents and settings&quot; folder a brand new profile has been created for her. &nbsp;The old profile/folder named &quot;jones&quot; is still there under documents and settings and contains all of the missing data, but the machine does not seem to want to use that profile anymore. &nbsp;The new profile/folder that she is being logged onto is named &quot;jones.minn&quot; with &quot;minn&quot; being our domain. &nbsp;You can delete the &quot;jones.minn&quot; profile/folder and it wil be recreated the next time she logs in. &nbsp;If you rename the old profile to &quot;jones.minn&quot; it does work, but I am leary of leaving it this way. &nbsp;We don't use any type of roaming profiles and she is the only person that uses this machine. <br />
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So basically my question is, why did her machine all of a sudden stop using the profile it has been using for years and start creating a new one for her. <br />
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Thanks!<br />
Gene 
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Hello,

A user on our domain logged off her Windows 2000 machine Friday and all was well.  Upon logon this morning, all of her settings are gone. (Background, Shortcuts, Mail, My docs)  Upon further inspection, under the "documents and settings" folder a brand new profile has been created for her.  The old profile/folder named "jones" is still there under documents and settings and contains all of the missing data, but the machine does not seem to want to use that profile anymore.  The new profile/folder that she is being logged onto is named "jones.minn" with "minn" being our domain.  You can delete the "jones.minn" profile/folder and it wil be recreated the next time she logs in.  If you rename the old profile to "jones.minn" it does work, but I am leary of leaving it this way.  We don't use any type of roaming profiles and she is the only person that uses this machine. 

So basically my question is, why did her machine all of a sudden stop using the profile it has been using for years and start creating a new one for her. 

Thanks!
Gene 

New profile created upon logon

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.