Can't find user profile

[roystreet]

Hello,
Here's an interesting problem I have never come across & maybe someone out there has gone through the same thing, ?

Recently, when I create a user, not an admin user just limited....
It goes through this process fine. But when I go to log onto to this account, it begins to load asking for password...Then it states that it cannot find the user profile.

Hmmmm....So, I look in the doc & settings & that user name is not located there. OK. I go into computer management & the user name is there & is a regular ole user, not admin. Here's where the problem get's more complex, if I create a new admin user... That account is created just fine. And you can log on to it with ease. I'm not sure what the problem here is. I have tried it several ways, even creating an admin account account & then later changing it to a limited account. Right after I changed it to a limited, it could no longer log in. It's not a roaming profile. I have tested it with the fast switching log on & without the fast switching log on. Well, I must run, but I thought I would throw this your way. Tell me what you all think.

Thanks,
---roystreet

[Daeymon]

Possibly a problem cause by the Admin settings or services you have running on the computer. Is the Log on locally setting enabled on you computer? Under admin, do newly created non admin accounts have access rights to your computer? Sounds like a permission problem for limited accounts.

[roystreet]

Yes, I believe they do have rights to the computer. I even gave all rights to everyone. So, now there are basically no files/folders that even a user can't get into. I gave back all rights again to kinda "start over" again. Hopeing that it would work. It was to no avail, of course. I reinstalled windows XP another hard drive, so I'm just going to pull all of the files I want from that hard drive onto my current newer one. Then, format the older one & use it. When I had users from another computer that was on a network connected to this one, they could get into all of the files with no problem. They were as well basic users. That may not pertain totally to this scenario since their profile is located on a serperate system. But it does tell me that users, if able to get onto my system do have rights to open/run/edit/etc files & folders.

I know it does sound very much like a permissions problem, but where's the root of it all? Somewhere in their, (probably of my own doing) when working with my network I set it in the wrong direction. Or I could have corrupted windows by doing something in error. I generally have had very little problem w/XP & still like it better than all in the past.

If you come up w/some other ideas pass them along my way. I have done extensive reseach to find information on a scenario like this & have found none.

---roystreet

--I wish there was a way to reset all of the settings back to original configuration. But I know of none that will reset ALL settings.