One of our users is having a problem with his roaming profile saying it came up with a registry error on XP when trying to login.
I'm stumpped on this one here's the quoted message
[QUOTE]Recieved registry error when logging in this morning. Message indicated it was forced to use an alternate registry file. Since then my roaming profile is not the same, I cannot open Outlook, or make any changes to my desktop appearance. This has only affected my Windows XP profile. We have a laptop that has been updated to Windows 7, and i don't see this problem on that machine.[/QUOTE]
If any of you guys have an idea of how I could fix this I would be so grateful!
I'm thinking I should go wipe out his profile from the computer that's having the problem, but if you guys have another way that I can try out by using remote desktop, instead of having to travel across campus to the building, I'd love you forever.
If his profile is being stored elsewhere; delete the local profile.
At my work, the profile is being copied to the PC each time a user logs in for the first time. If the user logs in on various PC's, it gets updated incrementally when he or she returns to a previously used PC.
The profile only contains settings and preferences in our case. The users files (documents, desktop) are stored on a separate network storage.
I don't know if the setup is the same at your place but if it is, it is safe to delete the local profile. Local profiles might corrupt when you turn off the PC without the proper shutdown sequence.
Thank you for confirming! I guess I'll have to walk my fat-ass on over there.
I hope it solves the case :)
Ack! The user is still having a problem with it. [QUOTE]As of 1445 on Friday I still have this problem. I can log on to the network, but I cannot open outlook, view any share drives, or if I make a change to my Windows settings, i.e. Start Menu, mouse, display they are not saved for the next time I log in. It wouldn't be an issue if these machines I'm using are being converted to Windows 7, but they aren't. One is too old and the other has software on it that isn't compatible with Windows 7.[/QUOTE]
I just gave him a work around but I'd really just like to find out what's going on exactly so I can fix it in the future.
DNS issue
ipconfig /flushdns
make sure net adapter is set to DHCP
reboot
the only other thing it could be is GPO is set to Windows 7 only and is not being applied correctly to the XP machine, any other XP machines having issures?
Yes the other XP machine is having an issue
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