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Windows - Corrupt profiles
Occasionally a user has problems and sometimes the fix is to redo their profiles because of the urban legend description - 'the profile has become corrupted'. How is that a profile gets corrupted? I understand how databases can be corrupted so what is that gets corrupted/causes corruption in a user's profile - the nt.dat file, too much garbage in their temp folders, a lot of big files on their desktop? Is there any tools that can be run against profiles similar to database 'integrity' checking/fixing tools that spots the problem and fixes it/makes recommendations?
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Do Roaming Profiles increase the chance of corrupt profiles? I haven't gathered statistics but I have the sense that the sites I have with Roaming Profiles have more corrupt profiles than those that don't.
I used to work at a college where over 1200 users had roaming pridiots and we hardly ever had issues with corrupt profiles.
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Thanks for the input. So once a profile gets corrupted, that's it - there's no real 'uncorrupt' tools like with databases and their rebuild index/integerity check tools? You just start from scratch and redo?
Is that the complete error, or does part of the error say the profile is either corrupt or can not be found.? Then, you get a temporary file to logon with that doesn't have anything within the profile.
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I was asking if there were programs that 'fix' a corrupted profile other than UPHClean which doesn't work in my environment. When I say fix I mean in a way similar to let's say an accounting program that has a database that you run integrity checks on whenever you want to detect corruption and then if you do find corruption they have re-indexing and other techniques that fix the corruption.
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