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In my case, the user was accidently made a member of both Domain Users and Domain Guests. &nbsp;I removed them from Domain Guests and it fixed them.
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In my case, the user was accidently made a member of both Domain Users and Domain Guests.  I removed them from Domain Guests and it fixed them.

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I have a windows 2003 network and a windows xp machine and this user has been working fine for a long time but now when the user logs in the machine acts like the user has never logged in and it sets up a new profile and all desktop shortcuts are gone. &nbsp;I thought this was something like malware on the pc so to test it, I took that pc offline and I am logging in to a new pc that I just installed, this user has never logged into it. &nbsp;Windows created the desktop profile the first time as normal (this is Windows 7 machine), now I log out and back in and the pc does the same thing and re-creates the profile again as if the user has never logged in before. &nbsp;If must be coming from the domain, active directory server? &nbsp;Any suggestions are appreciated.<br />
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Thanks!
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I have a windows 2003 network and a windows xp machine and this user has been working fine for a long time but now when the user logs in the machine acts like the user has never logged in and it sets up a new profile and all desktop shortcuts are gone.  I thought this was something like malware on the pc so to test it, I took that pc offline and I am logging in to a new pc that I just installed, this user has never logged into it.  Windows created the desktop profile the first time as normal (this is Windows 7 machine), now I log out and back in and the pc does the same thing and re-creates the profile again as if the user has never logged in before.  If must be coming from the domain, active directory server?  Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).