Stuck with username.machinename.000 ?

Discussion in 'Windows XP Help and Support' started by Blaq, May 13, 2014.

  1. Blaq

    Blaq

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    Hello all,

    my old XP machine has been getting quite flaky, occasionally refusing to load my user profile. A restart usually worked, but last week things took a turn for the worse and I was faced with a factory-default environment. I managed to restore ntuser.dat and ntuser.ini from last month's backup, so I recovered my environment apart from a few recent changes.

    My problem: my %USERPROFILE% is now C:\Documents and Settings\Charles.TINMAN.000 — not Charles which, as you can see, is the profile directory under which I worked all these years:

    Code:
    Charles              5/12/2014   14,362,998 KB
Charles.TINMAN        6/1/2011        2,817 KB
Charles.TINMAN.000   5/12/2014      175,403 KB
    How can I tell Windows to use C:\Documents and Settings\Charles as my user profile when I log on, instead of Charles.TINMAN.000?
     
    Blaq, May 13, 2014
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