dewnmoutain
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greetings to everyone!
i have a user here at work that has given me a rather peculiar predicament.
Back in mid november i had just upgraded the user from an xp box to a win7 box. As soon as she logged in, the problems started. i wont get into all of them, because i am only here for one of the problems.
Here is the skinny: she has 3 user account folders on the machine. the would be as follows
user.design
user.design.000
msuseryes
originally what happened was i had thought her user account wasnt populating correctly to win 7 so in my eagerness to fix the problem i blew away her user account (that was a mistake). So that she wasnt completely inaccessible, my super created her a special user account called "msuseryes" (i have no idea how he came up with it, dont ask). She-user was able to use msuseryes to log into the computer and work throughout the rest of the day while i worked at restoring her profile onto the network. luckily i was successful.
so the next day i went up and logged into her computer her user name and the box made "user.design". i reset office settings to save to network folders and set up printers. then i logged off, since she had the day off.
when she-user came to work the following day, she logs in, but instead of using the "user.design" folder for profile settings, it created "user.design.000". i found this out because she called me up telling me that she didnt have the printer setup and couldnt find her networked drives that i had mapped. i thought she was just being blonde but sure enough, all my work was gone. i did some snooping around and found the "user.design.000".
i tried blowing away the "msuseryes" and "user.design.000" accounts and renamed the "user.design" account to "user", but it ended up deleting all documents and files and folders...basically a divide by 0 incident. i restored the computer to an earlier time and the folders were back.
now, i have discovered that whenever she logs in, using user name and password, somehow it is logging her in under the "msuseryes" account, even though she hasnt touched it since november, but the files are updating to todays time stamps.
i have no idea what the heck is going on, and i loath the idea of pulling her box and reformating it if i dont have too...
i have a user here at work that has given me a rather peculiar predicament.
Back in mid november i had just upgraded the user from an xp box to a win7 box. As soon as she logged in, the problems started. i wont get into all of them, because i am only here for one of the problems.
Here is the skinny: she has 3 user account folders on the machine. the would be as follows
user.design
user.design.000
msuseryes
originally what happened was i had thought her user account wasnt populating correctly to win 7 so in my eagerness to fix the problem i blew away her user account (that was a mistake). So that she wasnt completely inaccessible, my super created her a special user account called "msuseryes" (i have no idea how he came up with it, dont ask). She-user was able to use msuseryes to log into the computer and work throughout the rest of the day while i worked at restoring her profile onto the network. luckily i was successful.
so the next day i went up and logged into her computer her user name and the box made "user.design". i reset office settings to save to network folders and set up printers. then i logged off, since she had the day off.
when she-user came to work the following day, she logs in, but instead of using the "user.design" folder for profile settings, it created "user.design.000". i found this out because she called me up telling me that she didnt have the printer setup and couldnt find her networked drives that i had mapped. i thought she was just being blonde but sure enough, all my work was gone. i did some snooping around and found the "user.design.000".
i tried blowing away the "msuseryes" and "user.design.000" accounts and renamed the "user.design" account to "user", but it ended up deleting all documents and files and folders...basically a divide by 0 incident. i restored the computer to an earlier time and the folders were back.
now, i have discovered that whenever she logs in, using user name and password, somehow it is logging her in under the "msuseryes" account, even though she hasnt touched it since november, but the files are updating to todays time stamps.
i have no idea what the heck is going on, and i loath the idea of pulling her box and reformating it if i dont have too...
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