User Profiles

Thanks. That helped. Now, for some reason XP went and created a Systems
folder for Mary.MARY-HOME. MARY-HOME is the name of my computer. I tried to
create an account for Mary.MARY-HOME and then delete it but it didn't work.
It never showed up under the Advanced User Profiles Tab. How do I get rid of
it?

"NewScience" wrote:

> Rename the Mary folder under C:\Documents and Settings (be logged in as an
> administrator account).
> Then create a new User named Mary.
>
> Once created (you must login as Mary first in order for Mary's environment
> be created), copy files from each of the two accounts and merge them into
> the C:\Documents and Settings\Mary folder.
>
> Once everything is merged you can Remove Mary1 account using User Accounts
> and just delete the old Mary folder.
>
> "luvspeanut" <luvspeanut.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:79036896-B10D-4048-8226-BEAC3F23E296@microsoft.com...
> > Under User Accounts I have 1 account called "Mary1". Under Documents and
> > Settings there are 2 folders. One called Mary and one called Mary1. I
> > would
> > like to have only one Profile called Mary. I have tried to create an
> > additional account and copy everything from Mary1 to Mary under System
> > Properties/Advanced but my Computer didn't give me that option. I can't
> > just
> > delete Mary1 because that is a System folder. The only folder currently
> > showing up under System Properties/Advanced is Mary1. I have XP SP2 Home
> > Edition. How do I clean up this mess?
>
>
>

Are you using Control Panel | User Accounts? Not Run control userpassword2.
It sounds like that you had an entry in the registry under ProfileLists for
Mary, so when you created Mary, it creates based on the username and the
computername.

You can go into the registry and change the name in the Profilelists
ProfileImagePath for MARY.MARY-HOME to be Mary and rename the C:\Document
and Settings\Mary.MARY-HOME to be Mary. And then merge the data from the
other folders.

The registry key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Under that key are all the registered users on your system. They are
represented as SIDS (S-1-5-21-*). Each has a value name in right panel:
ProfileImagePath.

Look at each one and see what duplicates are there. You should see your
Mary1, Mary and now your Mary.MARY-HOME.

Using Control Panel | User Accounts, delete each user BUT keep data files
.... it will ask you. You may want to backup the user accounts (C:\Documents
and Settings\[USERNAME]) accounts prior to removing the accounts.

Then check the registry keys and check that the entries for Mary1, Mary and
Mary.MARY-HOME are gone. If these entries are not gone, you cannot add a
new User that has the same name in one of those keys

Then add Mary, you should not have a problem. Then merge information from
the backup folders. Once the data has been merged, you can remove the
backups.

"luvspeanut" <luvspeanut DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:71D3E792-14D6-4C1C-A478-CAE81169FFD1@microsoft.com...
> Thanks. That helped. Now, for some reason XP went and created a Systems
> folder for Mary.MARY-HOME. MARY-HOME is the name of my computer. I tried
> to
> create an account for Mary.MARY-HOME and then delete it but it didn't
> work.
> It never showed up under the Advanced User Profiles Tab. How do I get rid
> of
> it?
>
> "NewScience" wrote:
>
>> Rename the Mary folder under C:\Documents and Settings (be logged in as
>> an
>> administrator account).
>> Then create a new User named Mary.
>>
>> Once created (you must login as Mary first in order for Mary's
>> environment
>> be created), copy files from each of the two accounts and merge them into
>> the C:\Documents and Settings\Mary folder.
>>
>> Once everything is merged you can Remove Mary1 account using User
>> Accounts
>> and just delete the old Mary folder.
>>
>> "luvspeanut" <luvspeanut DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:79036896-B10D-4048-8226-BEAC3F23E296@microsoft.com...
>> > Under User Accounts I have 1 account called "Mary1". Under Documents
>> > and
>> > Settings there are 2 folders. One called Mary and one called Mary1. I
>> > would
>> > like to have only one Profile called Mary. I have tried to create an
>> > additional account and copy everything from Mary1 to Mary under System
>> > Properties/Advanced but my Computer didn't give me that option. I
>> > can't
>> > just
>> > delete Mary1 because that is a System folder. The only folder
>> > currently
>> > showing up under System Properties/Advanced is Mary1. I have XP SP2
>> > Home
>> > Edition. How do I clean up this mess?
>>
>>
>>