Posted on 05/23/2008 10:02:03 AM PDT by ml/nj
ML/NJ
People get kind of testy when they feel you have insulted their intelligence.
I know how annoyed I get when someone is giving me advice when the subject is outside their area of competence and inside mine. I’ve also had people justifiably annoyed with me for being the incompetent advise giver. The best thing to do at that point is acknowledge they know what they are talking about and thank them for the education.
This was good advice especially on Windows 98. Clearing out the My Documents folder also sped up performance.
There's a known problem where the registry was unable to be unloaded while the user is logging out, so Windows had to "force" the unload, and this would occasionally corrupt the profile. There's a fix for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, the "User Profile Hive Cleaner". The problem usually presents itself (before corrupting the profile) as extremely slow logouts, and if you check the system event log, you'll see messages that the registry hive was unable to unload. I wonder if there's a similar problem with Vista, but then the UPHC isn't set up to work with Vista.
Mark
I am so happy my family has gone 100% Mac and will never again have to deal with this crap. My mom has been using an iMac for her e-mail and Internet surfing for seven years now, without one single hiccup in all that time.
You might want to check out this blog on the beta version of UPHClean (User Profile Hive Cleaner):
http://blogs.technet.com/uphclean
the problem sounds like the same sort of problem that was often fixed by UPHC. This problem has been around nearly as long as Windows 2000! However, according to the blog, UPHClean functionality was built into Vista natively.
Though I mentioned it in another post, one of the causes of corrupted user profiles is something keeping the user hive of the registry from unloading cleanly - something is still accessing it - so Windows has to force it closed when you logout. This presents itself by very long times to logout - I’ve seen as long as 3 minutes on Windows 2000. The current version of UPHC (1.6, I think) is for Win2K, XP, and Server 2003. When the hive becomes corrupted, Windows is forced to create a new user profile, with all new user settings (the user hive of the registry).
Anyway, here’s a link to the current version of UPHClean, although it won’t work on Vista - The latest beta (refer to the blog, above) might:
Mark
ML/NJ
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