Never seen this before, and Google search turns up no answers.

I have a user who's profile type was marked as backup, instead of Local or Roaming. (under system properties, advanced, user profiles, settings) It created a new profile for him called temp, in documents and settings. The weird thing is windows uses that as his new local profile instead of deleting it when he logs off. (Usually if windows determines a profile is corrupt, it will create a temp profile but it is removed when the user logs off)

 

go to it on C Drive. it is labeled:

c:\documents and settings\profilename.sav ? (For XP)
c:\users\profilename.sav ? (For Vista/7)

 

I know where profiles are located on the C drive.

his original profile is there.
the new temp profile is there.

if you delete the temp profile, it recreates it the next time he logs in.


AND it makes it his new local profile! (generally speaking windows will delete any temp profiles it creates when the user logs off)

 

Found a tool....

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/d...displaylang=en

 

sorry i meant to word it as "is it" not it is

if so, the profile is corrupted.

 

Just create a new one and move stuff into it.

 

Well the tool worked.

Just really weird, never seen anything like it.


And no, it didn't have any .sav or .bac attached to the file name.

 

Suite.