Corrupt Windows 2000 Profile

[iamglt]

Hi,

I use a shared PC at work with other shiftworkers which is connected to a company network. The PC has local profiles (not roaming ones). All users are power users and then the IT department are Administrators.

I have just come back from my days off and I logged on to Windows (and the company network), windows created a new profile name (my user name + a "." and then the network domain name).

My old profile is still listed, but it says access is denied if I try to access it.

I only use this PC for email and surfing, and no one else who uses this machine has this problem.

Can anyone give me any advice on how to track when my profile was last updated? It is like my profile belongs to another user (ie. security will not allow me to view the date modified or size information).

This is the third time my profile has been corrupted (the first two times were different errors) and I am starting to think that maybe someone else is doing things they shouldn't.

If anyone can give me a heads up as to how I can track if people are stuffing my profile up it would be very much appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

Profile corruption is very common; my guess would be that no one is stuffing up yours.

One handy trick is to copy your old profile to your new one so that nothing appears differently. You will require local administrator rights:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

 

[iamglt]

Hi,

In regards to my question below, it seems that while I was away there was a program called total wipe used on this PC. Can anyone advise, if my files were deleted via this program, are there any logs etc. within windows that will display what was deleted by this program or the user who deleted them?

Thanks.