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Documents and Settings Question - Microsoft Patch Problem

by Zone_V Jul 14, 2007 11:13AM PDT

Hi,

Yesterday, my PC automatically updated and rebooted following a patch
received from Microsoft update. The system event viewer shows the following
event:

Restart Required: To complete the installation of the following updates, the
computer will be restarted within 5 minutes:
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2007 (KB890830)
- Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB926122)

After the reboot, it appeared that my desktop was completely reset as if I
had just reinstalled Windows2000. I think what happend is that the patch
somehow changed the folder references used under Documents and Settings to a
new version of my user. If I look under

c:\documents and settings\

I see:

Administrator
All Users
Zone_V
Zone_V.Matterhorn

From what I can tell, it looks like my account user, Zone_V is pointing to
Zone_V.Matterhorn instead of Zone_V. All the registry entries I need are
also associated with Zone_V.

How can I:

Change things so that my user references Zone_V instead of
Zone_V.Matterhorn? Then, how can I delete Zone_V.Matterhorn?

FWIW: Matterhorn happens to be PC Name.

Thanks for any help!

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Zone_V

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Profiles.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 14, 2007 11:42AM PDT

That's called "profiles." Here's some articles about them but I wonder if this is one of those machines that someone set to automatically login?

Light reading about PROFILES at this link -> http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=23192&messageID=252076#252076

Yes, it applies to 2000 Professional.

Bob

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