Hello,
I've got a machine here running multiple profiles. I was running 3: administrator, and 2 user profiles. For several months everything worked fine, but in the last week one of the profiles developed a problem. When the user tries to log in, the login sticks at "loading personal settings" and will stay there even if we let it wait for an hour. The only way out seems to be a hard boot. I thought maybe the profile went corrupt, so I deleted it and created another with a different name, but the same problem persists. The original administrator profile and the first user profile remain (as yet) unaffected).
Here're some specs.
Dell Inspiron laptop 1520 series
Win XP w/ SP2
Intel Core2 Duo CPU, T7300 @ 2.00 GHz
2GB RAM
Administrator profile: full usual administrator rights.
Profile 1: Regular user with no creation rights except in a couple of designated folders. Used for gaming, internet.
Profile 2: Regular user with no creation rights except in the same folders as profile 1 (that profile's "my documents" plus a couple more in which I gave Users "write" permissions due to gaming needs)
The drive is 100 GB, partitioned into 3 drives. C: is Windows and has 10GB (~2.5 unused). D: is the Dell MediaDirect whats-it that I hardly ever use. P: is the data drive with 88GB (~48 unused).
The PC is shared between 2 people. It's mine, and when my friend comes over, she uses the other profile (the one having trouble). That's only once or twice a week, often less than that even.
At present I'm running a virus scanner, but I don't see a virus as being likely given that it affected a clean profile and not the other two (admin/user). Does anybody have any advice?
Thanks,
GS
EDIT: one more thing. The profiles aren't running any special programs at startup. There is a logitech mouse program, avast antivirus, the touchpad program, nVidia settings and InCD. That's all.
EDIT 2: virus scanner turned up clean.
I've got a machine here running multiple profiles. I was running 3: administrator, and 2 user profiles. For several months everything worked fine, but in the last week one of the profiles developed a problem. When the user tries to log in, the login sticks at "loading personal settings" and will stay there even if we let it wait for an hour. The only way out seems to be a hard boot. I thought maybe the profile went corrupt, so I deleted it and created another with a different name, but the same problem persists. The original administrator profile and the first user profile remain (as yet) unaffected).
Here're some specs.
Dell Inspiron laptop 1520 series
Win XP w/ SP2
Intel Core2 Duo CPU, T7300 @ 2.00 GHz
2GB RAM
Administrator profile: full usual administrator rights.
Profile 1: Regular user with no creation rights except in a couple of designated folders. Used for gaming, internet.
Profile 2: Regular user with no creation rights except in the same folders as profile 1 (that profile's "my documents" plus a couple more in which I gave Users "write" permissions due to gaming needs)
The drive is 100 GB, partitioned into 3 drives. C: is Windows and has 10GB (~2.5 unused). D: is the Dell MediaDirect whats-it that I hardly ever use. P: is the data drive with 88GB (~48 unused).
The PC is shared between 2 people. It's mine, and when my friend comes over, she uses the other profile (the one having trouble). That's only once or twice a week, often less than that even.
At present I'm running a virus scanner, but I don't see a virus as being likely given that it affected a clean profile and not the other two (admin/user). Does anybody have any advice?
Thanks,
GS
EDIT: one more thing. The profiles aren't running any special programs at startup. There is a logitech mouse program, avast antivirus, the touchpad program, nVidia settings and InCD. That's all.
EDIT 2: virus scanner turned up clean.
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