restoring user profile

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Unfortunately I created a mistake of renaming my document and settings folder
and its documents' folder to update it to a more applicable name. As a result
a new default user profile was created. How can I revert back so my user
account opens the former user profile instead of the new one?

 

[Guest]

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try using the system restore facility





"hpum" <hpum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AE9F9F44-C7B5-4032-9455-F61693EFEBBD@microsoft.com...
> Unfortunately I created a mistake of renaming my document and settings
> folder
> and its documents' folder to update it to a more applicable name. As a
> result
> a new default user profile was created. How can I revert back so my user
> account opens the former user profile instead of the new one?
>

 

[Guest]

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I did but strangely I was surprise it didn't then solve my problem; when I
tried to undo, it didn't let me. Somehow, I even notice it restoring back to
a much earlier date then the restore point I chose

"Steve UK" wrote:

> try using the system restore facility
>
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>
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> "hpum" <hpum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AE9F9F44-C7B5-4032-9455-F61693EFEBBD@microsoft.com...
> > Unfortunately I created a mistake of renaming my document and settings
> > folder
> > and its documents' folder to update it to a more applicable name. As a
> > result
> > a new default user profile was created. How can I revert back so my user
> > account opens the former user profile instead of the new one?
> >
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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hpum wrote:
> Unfortunately I created a mistake of renaming my document and
> settings folder and its documents' folder to update it to a more
> applicable name.
> As a result a new default user profile was created. How can I revert back
> so my
> user account opens the former user profile instead of the new one?

Steve UK wrote:
> try using the system restore facility

hpum wrote:
> I did but strangely I was surprise it didn't then solve my problem;
> when I tried to undo, it didn't let me. Somehow, I even notice it
> restoring back to a much earlier date then the restore point I chose

This thing confounds me almost as much as those who worry solely about how
long their PC takes to boot.. In the long run it just doesn't matter as
long as your PC runs happily.

1) Create another administrative level user.
2) Reboot.
3) Log on as the new administrative user.
4) Rename the profile that was created for your user when first renamed the
directory.
5) Rename the profile you renamed earlier to the name of the directory you
just changed the name of.. (If the directory you just renamed in the last
step was "hpum.000", then rename the originally directory to "hpum.000" now.
6) Reboot
7) Try logging in as the user in question now.

There's also a method for pointing the profile to another profile
directory - but let's start with this.. =)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

[Guest]

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I did but I got the inevitable error "Cannot rename a user profile with the a
name that already exist. Specify a different file name" Shall we try the
pointing method now

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> hpum wrote:
> > Unfortunately I created a mistake of renaming my document and
> > settings folder and its documents' folder to update it to a more
> > applicable name.
> > As a result a new default user profile was created. How can I revert back
> > so my
> > user account opens the former user profile instead of the new one?
>
> Steve UK wrote:
> > try using the system restore facility
>
> hpum wrote:
> > I did but strangely I was surprise it didn't then solve my problem;
> > when I tried to undo, it didn't let me. Somehow, I even notice it
> > restoring back to a much earlier date then the restore point I chose
>
> This thing confounds me almost as much as those who worry solely about how
> long their PC takes to boot.. In the long run it just doesn't matter as
> long as your PC runs happily.
>
> 1) Create another administrative level user.
> 2) Reboot.
> 3) Log on as the new administrative user.
> 4) Rename the profile that was created for your user when first renamed the
> directory.
> 5) Rename the profile you renamed earlier to the name of the directory you
> just changed the name of.. (If the directory you just renamed in the last
> step was "hpum.000", then rename the originally directory to "hpum.000" now.
> 6) Reboot
> 7) Try logging in as the user in question now.
>
> There's also a method for pointing the profile to another profile
> directory - but let's start with this.. =)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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hpum wrote:
> I did but I got the inevitable error "Cannot rename a user profile
> with the a name that already exist. Specify a different file name"
> Shall we try the pointing method now

You mustn't have followed the directions then..

Try again.. Do not skip any steps..
I will give more detail..

1) Create another administrative level user.
(for example, create a user named "oops" and give him admin rights.)

2) Reboot. Very Important.

3) Log on as the new administrative user. (as "oops"...)

4) Rename the profile that was created for your user when first renamed the
directory.
5) Rename the profile you renamed earlier to the name of the directory you
just changed the name of.. (If the directory you just renamed in the last
step was "hpum.000", then rename the originally directory to "hpum.000" now.
(You likely have the renamed user account directory and the user account
directory that is currently being used in C:\Documents and Settings\.
What you want to do is to rename the new directory that was created
after you renamed the old directory and logged in again. So, if you
had
the userrname "owner" before and you renamed the C:\documents and
settings\owner folder to c:\documents and settings\myuser, it likely
created the "owner" folder again and started using it. So now you have
an "owner" folder and the renamed folder. Rename the "owner" folder
that Windows created after you renamed the original to "mybad" and
rename the folder you originally renamed to "owner" (substitute actual
names where appropriate.)

6) Reboot

7) Try logging in as the user in question now.

If that doesn't work - you could be fubar and you really only need the
documents and stuff from the folder - copy them to your new profile and
consider this a lesson learned. You should have googled for renaming a user
profile.. The proper method would have been to create a new user, reboot,
log on as the new user, log off, log on as your old user and use FAST to
export the settings, log off, log back on as the new user and use FAST to
import the settings. (At least that is one method that would have gotten
you the renamed directory you want with everything intact.)

The profiles - where they are stored anyway - is a location in the
registry..

Start -> RUN -> regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Look for the SID (the really nasty looking number starting with S-1-5
usually) folder that when you select it on the left and look on the right in
the value for "ProfileImagePath" has the value for the user you want to
change. Change that to be the path you want it to be.. and then close
the regedit and reboot.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

[switch852]

I have a question? I deleted a user profile on a computer running vista and now when i log in using that user name vista makes a temp. user that will not save any changes i make. how do i get it to save changes under that same user log in.

 

[sturm]

Remove the account on the computer and remake it. You can remove the profiles without removing the account.