Strange behaviour regarding profile/users

I have XP Pro at home, only two users are listed under user accounts/
Douglas and Guest.

I have been using Douglas for a while now, no problem at all. Then a week
ago I boot up my PC as normal but it is acting like it is the first time I
have ever logged on. It wants to do the tour, my mail is gone, my desktop
and icons are gone, it is like a fresh setup. I looked under C:\documents
and settings and I have a user Douglas and a user Douglas.workhome. I
copied all my data over to the new profile, douglas.workhome and all was
well.

Then yesterday the same thing happened, now I have user
douglas.workhome.0000 under the C:\documents and settings. I haven't done
anything to the computer and this just randomly keeps doing this. Any
suggestions?

Thank you in advance,
Douglas

That is very strange for a workgroup computer. Normally, when a profile
is corrupted, XP will say so and tell you it is using a temporary
profile that isn't saved. Have you been switching back and forth between
workgroup and domain?

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Douglas" <douglas@at-mciver.org> wrote in message
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> I have XP Pro at home, only two users are listed under user accounts/
> Douglas and Guest.
>
> I have been using Douglas for a while now, no problem at all. Then a

week

> ago I boot up my PC as normal but it is acting like it is the first

time I

> have ever logged on. It wants to do the tour, my mail is gone, my

desktop

> and icons are gone, it is like a fresh setup. I looked under

C:\documents

> and settings and I have a user Douglas and a user Douglas.workhome. I
> copied all my data over to the new profile, douglas.workhome and all

was

> well.
>
> Then yesterday the same thing happened, now I have user
> douglas.workhome.0000 under the C:\documents and settings. I haven't

done

> anything to the computer and this just randomly keeps doing this. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Douglas
>
>