Defining the profile area to use for a user.

A. By default when a user logs on for the first time at a machine adirectory under %systemroot%profiles is created under the name of the user tohold the users profile, e.g. for user saviljo the area created would be%systemroot%profilessaviljo.

Problems arise if the directory already exists and so an alternate directory.nnn will be created, starting with 000. This mapping isstored in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionProfileList. You can therefore force a user to use a specificprofile area by performing the following:

The user should now login using the profile you originally copied for them.Once you are sure it works you can delete the .nnn directoryunder %systemroot%profiles. You should make sure the user has the right touser the original profile, for example if you have copied it to that locationand granted rights accordingly.