Topic: 2 x user profiles in windows?

[cattledog]

Hi,  Why do I now have two user profiles in windows after adding in a user?  Lets say my machine is box.my.sin when I add user lets say bones, windows connects and all is good but when I reboot I log in as bones and all is well, but after awhile a second user profile decides to pop up after a couple of reboots with bones.MY.SIN? is there a reason and can I amalgamate the bones.MY.SIN with bones as admin?

[idp_qbn]

This is a Windows problem, to do with Windows profiles: you can be a user "bones" on the local machine and have a profile. You can also be a user "bones" on a domain and have another (quite different and separate) profile.

And just to make it even better, if you login as the domain user and the PC can't get your profile from the server, then it can (probably will) create another locally stored profile (which is not the profile belonging to local user "bones"...... it is probably something like the "bones.my.sin".

Clear now?
If you never want to logon to a domain, you can delete the bones.my.sin profile.
If you always logon to a domain and NEVER to the local PC, you can delete the local profile.

Or you can ignore them and put up with it - just remember to say, when it happens again : "Ah, Microsoft - re-inventing the world its own way!"


Cheers 
Ian

[cattledog]

cheers Ian.....I shood not be  shocked