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Administration & Security
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>Standard Disclaimer - I'm not sure I can even explain this right :)
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>I'm running NT4 workstation, with recently installed SP4
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>It was decided last week I need to login/show up on different domain. For some reason that I don't understand, this was no simple thing. The new domain just refused to see me. End result was I watched NT get reinstalled on my machine 3 times in 2 days. Needless to say I lost all my profile stuff (shortcuts, display settings, start menu stuff, ect.) In the midst of that, SP4 was applied and they changed my computer name while they were at it. They finally got me to show up on the right domain, and yesterday I setup all my profile stuff again. End of the day came, I logged out and shutdown. Now today, I'm right back at square one - none of my display settings or shortcuts stuck. Network administrator is out all week to boot.
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>By right clicking on start menu & doing explore all users, I seen I had 2 rseibert profiles on this machine, rseibert and rseibert00001. I also seen I was logged on as the regular rseibert. So I created a new user with adminstrative rights via user manager thingy. I logged under that new user, copied everything from rseibert0001 to rseibert profile. Logged back on under rseibert, changed my background & created a few shortcuts, logged off and logged back on and still nothing seemed to stick (display settings & shortcuts gone).
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>Anyone know what do I need to do to get Profile stuff to stick again?
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>Any advice on what I can do to somehow create a backup of my profile when it does start to stick so I don't go thru this again the next time they decide to reinstall NT on my machine? (I seem to get reinstalled atleast once a month < sigh > ) TIA!

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