This is another Vista goodie. All us anal retentive network nazi’s have the habit of cleaning up old profiles from desktop computers when we run accross them. the simplest way was to simply delete the profile folders from the Documents and Settings folder in XP or 2000. As you probably know by now, documents and settings has been replaced by the OSXesq Users folder. So you figure you can do the same thing in this folder. Well, you can, but you are stting up a potential problem in the future. It seems that the registry keeps track of all the users that have every logged on to a machine. Now if you’ve deleted the user’s profile contents by simply deleting their profile folder, then when you try to log into the machine using that profile, Vista barks at you with the titled error. You think WTF? this user can log into every other computer, and other users can log into this computer!!! The fix to this is to go into the registry and remove the references to the deleted profiles. The profile list can be found here: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\ProfileList\ The prevention is to log into the machine as a local adminitrator and go in to the computer’s Advanced properties and delete the profile from there. that way the folder AND the registry entries will be removed.

Just another “helpfull” feature of Vista…

DS