Help with XP profiles?

skypilot

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Ive got a huge meeting tomorrow morning and I need some help. I would really appreciate anything you all have to say, or at this point even your prayers :-(

Heres the issue:
I log onto windows XP pro today, and it seems like im on a new profile... my outlook express contacts and messages are gone, my desktop icons are gone, my documents is empty, etc.

So I look in the "Documents and Settings" folder and it seems that there is a new profile that I am logged onto, titled "Skypilot.Skypilotcomputer", technically "username.computername". For some reason, when I try to log onto to the "kypilot" profile, it places me in this one. Problem is, I can't access my outlook messsages or addresses. I CAN access my docs by going into the original "username" ("skypilot") directory, but I'm not sure how to get at my mail messages.

Anyone have any ideas?

HAAAAAAALP!
 

nanaki333

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Sep 14, 2002
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do you log on to a domain? maybe you logon to a domain originally and you've just been logging on locally recently.
 

arbytech

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skypilot,

What nanaki333 says is what I would think as well. If you logon to a domain with a username and then logon to the computer with the same username it will generate a different profile.

Be sure and check the third field on the logon screen and make sure it lists the domain not the computer name.