artm99
03-21-07, 11:03 AM
System: Dell 1300, Win2K Pro, SP3, FAT32, RAID w/Adaptec AAA-13302
1. My computer name was "DELL" and then changed to "mail".
2. My login name has always been "Administrator". Under documents and settings it changed to Administrator.DELL, probably when I first named it. When I did #1 above the folder still remained Administrator.DELL. As this didn't affect me I left it alone.
3. The other day I had a RAID drive fail, a spare kicked in and I was still up and running. Shut down system to run diagnostics on the spare and then booted up. Windows could not load my user profile because of a corrupt ntuser file - not from lack of space for the registry.
4. After creating a couple more admin accounts for testing, I now have Administrator in doc and settings - not Administrator.DELL. The system boots to the desktop of Administrator but displays strange behavior:
- services.exe is running at 60-80% constantly on all users. I shutdown each service that depends on it but no luck
- Network and Dialup Connections does not open
- Device Manager does not open
- I can ping to Internet but cannot connect with browser
- I can connect from/to the network and transfer files (thankfully)
- clicking on start menu eventually prevents it from opening. restarting explorer.exe solves this
5. I have a backup of the entire hive from Jan 2007 when I had Administrator.DELL.
I've pretty much determined that the course of action is as follows:
1. login as Admin2 (already setup)
2. rename Administrator to Administrator.DELL
3. copy ntuser.dat and UsrClass.dat from January backup to Administrator.DELL
4. use RC to restore January hive
Any thoughts appreciated.
1. My computer name was "DELL" and then changed to "mail".
2. My login name has always been "Administrator". Under documents and settings it changed to Administrator.DELL, probably when I first named it. When I did #1 above the folder still remained Administrator.DELL. As this didn't affect me I left it alone.
3. The other day I had a RAID drive fail, a spare kicked in and I was still up and running. Shut down system to run diagnostics on the spare and then booted up. Windows could not load my user profile because of a corrupt ntuser file - not from lack of space for the registry.
4. After creating a couple more admin accounts for testing, I now have Administrator in doc and settings - not Administrator.DELL. The system boots to the desktop of Administrator but displays strange behavior:
- services.exe is running at 60-80% constantly on all users. I shutdown each service that depends on it but no luck
- Network and Dialup Connections does not open
- Device Manager does not open
- I can ping to Internet but cannot connect with browser
- I can connect from/to the network and transfer files (thankfully)
- clicking on start menu eventually prevents it from opening. restarting explorer.exe solves this
5. I have a backup of the entire hive from Jan 2007 when I had Administrator.DELL.
I've pretty much determined that the course of action is as follows:
1. login as Admin2 (already setup)
2. rename Administrator to Administrator.DELL
3. copy ntuser.dat and UsrClass.dat from January backup to Administrator.DELL
4. use RC to restore January hive
Any thoughts appreciated.