I am not too familiar with user accounts and why one would be affected and not the other. But I would suggest a virus scan and a spyware scan to eliminate those possibilities.
Before doing the virus - and especially before the spyware scanning of hijackthis, please reinable anything you have disabled from starting, this can give false information for removal. ---------------------- On my site (Link Below) try the AV section and one of the online virus checkers, such as housecall.
If that does not work try the malware route. Use these to remove Malware (Spyware and Adware).
1) SpyBot Search and Destroy After installing SpyBot Search & Destroy, first press Online, and search for, put a check mark at, and install all updates. Next, close all Internet Explorer windows, hit 'Check for Problems', have SpyBot remove all the items it marks in red.
2) Get Ad-Aware After installing Ad-Aware, and before running the program, first press “check for updates now". Click "Connect" and install all updated components available. Click 'Finish'. Press "Scan Now", then 'next', and let Ad-Aware scan your drives. It will find a number of "bad" files and registry keys. Click 'Next' again. Check all found items, and click 'next' once more. It will ask you whether you'd like to remove all checked items. Click OK.
Always reboot the computer between each program - both of these may find things that they need to have a reboot of the machine to clear - please reboot and let them finish .
Failing those solving your problems a post of a hijackthis log for the experts to advise. HijackThis From Here Important: Create a folder on the C: drive called C:\HJT. You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it HJT. Unzip HijackThis into this folder. When you run HijackThis from this folder and have it "Fixed checked" it will create a backup file of modifications to use if restore is necessary. Then run, scan, save log, then in notepad copy the FULL log by copy and paste as a reply to this post and an expert with HijackThis Knowldge, will have a go at giving advice. Please note the list of experts names below, very few forum regulars here have had this training. DO NOT FIX ANYTHING WITH HIJACKTHIS WITHOUT EXPERT ADVICE, most of what it finds you need for normal MS Windows tasks.
Known Spyware HijackThis fighters in DellTalk - If you are, and are not on the list please PM Me.
TomCoyote (of http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php fame) YoKenny (Accredited Expert at TomCoyotes) baskar1234 (Spyware Classroom Teaching Assistant at TomCoyotes) ChrisRLG (Spyware Classroom Teaching Assistant at TomCoyotes) Yellowhammer (In Training at TomCoyotes) therock247uk (In Training at TomCoyotes) irelynmisses (In Training at TomCoyotes)
I, and the other hijack experts mentioned above, are in all those sites (and more) with the same login names. You might get one of us at those sites also to anwser your log, but other experts will also be available.
From XP Home, Help and supoport, under user profiles overview:
A roaming user profile, which is created by your system administrator and is stored on a server. This profile is available every time you log on to any computer on the network. Any changes made to your roaming user profile will be updated on the server.
If you search for roaming profile in help and support whilst connected to the internet, you should get some relevant articles from the MS knowledge base. Under the search box there is a link to set search options, which includes settings for the MS knowledge base. set it to Windows XP for this search. Some of those may clarify issues relating to roaming profiles
Woody_
83 Posts
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January 13th, 2004 10:00
ChrisRLG
3.9K Posts
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January 13th, 2004 11:00
Before doing the virus - and especially before the spyware scanning of hijackthis, please reinable anything you have disabled from starting, this can give false information for removal.
----------------------
On my site (Link Below) try the AV section and one of the online virus checkers, such as housecall.
If that does not work try the malware route.
Use these to remove Malware (Spyware and Adware).
1) SpyBot Search and Destroy
After installing SpyBot Search & Destroy, first press Online, and search for, put a check mark at, and install all updates.
Next, close all Internet Explorer windows, hit 'Check for Problems', have SpyBot remove all the items it marks in red.
2) Get Ad-Aware
After installing Ad-Aware, and before running the program, first press “check for updates now".
Click "Connect" and install all updated components available. Click 'Finish'.
Press "Scan Now", then 'next', and let Ad-Aware scan your drives.
It will find a number of "bad" files and registry keys. Click 'Next' again.
Check all found items, and click 'next' once more.
It will ask you whether you'd like to remove all checked items. Click OK.
Always reboot the computer between each program - both of these may find things that they need to have a reboot of the machine to clear - please reboot and let them finish .
Failing those solving your problems a post of a hijackthis log for the experts to advise.
HijackThis From Here
Important: Create a folder on the C: drive called C:\HJT.
You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it HJT.
Unzip HijackThis into this folder. When you run HijackThis from this folder and have it "Fixed checked" it will create a backup file of modifications to use if restore is necessary. Then run, scan, save log, then in notepad copy the FULL log by copy and paste as a reply to this post and an expert with HijackThis Knowldge, will have a go at giving advice. Please note the list of experts names below, very few forum regulars here have had this training.
DO NOT FIX ANYTHING WITH HIJACKTHIS WITHOUT EXPERT ADVICE, most of what it finds you need for normal MS Windows tasks.
Known Spyware HijackThis fighters in DellTalk - If you are, and are not on the list please PM Me.
TomCoyote (of http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php fame)
YoKenny (Accredited Expert at TomCoyotes)
baskar1234 (Spyware Classroom Teaching Assistant at TomCoyotes)
ChrisRLG (Spyware Classroom Teaching Assistant at TomCoyotes)
Yellowhammer (In Training at TomCoyotes)
therock247uk (In Training at TomCoyotes)
irelynmisses (In Training at TomCoyotes)
You could also go to one of the more specalist forums where more experts will be able to help.
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/index.php
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi (Home of Spybot S&D)
http://boards.cexx.org/index.php
Do read the sites FAQ before posting, and advise your problem and what steps you have already done to try to cure your problem.
I, and the other hijack experts mentioned above, are in all those sites (and more) with the same login names. You might get one of us at those sites also to anwser your log, but other experts will also be available.
kentl901
49 Posts
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January 14th, 2004 20:00
Nothing worked. But I did notice my "roaming profile" was signifcantly larger than the fast loading accounts. How do I adjust the size of the file?
Thanks.
JRosenfeld
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4.4K Posts
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January 14th, 2004 21:00
From XP Home, Help and supoport, under user profiles overview:
A roaming user profile, which is created by your system administrator and is stored on a server. This profile is available every time you log on to any computer on the network. Any changes made to your roaming user profile will be updated on the server.
If you search for roaming profile in help and support whilst connected to the internet, you should get some relevant articles from the MS knowledge base. Under the search box there is a link to set search options, which includes settings for the MS knowledge base. set it to Windows XP for this search. Some of those may clarify issues relating to roaming profiles