Re: Strange Folder

["P.P. Lodder" <p.lodder () yifan net>]

On Sunday, 6 Oct 2002, discipulus wrote:

> The other day I noticed a strange folder had been created
> on my W2K Pro machine at work.

> The folder had been created in C:\Documents and Settings and
> didn't have an account name but four or five odd looking square
> block characters instead.  When I right click on the folder and
> choose "properties", it displays the name as "rrrrr".

> AFAIK, the only way a new folder would be created in C:\Documents and
Settings\
> is for "first time" logins.

I yesterday noted the same when I resetted an user's profile on an NT4
Workstation machine. Today, again. Difference is that here it shows up on
the desktop instead of in the profile map
(C:\WINNT\Profiles\<user>\Desktop). I logged into the machine as
administrator to delete the locally stored profile after doing the same on
the server. This was due to incidents with corrupted user profiles, of which
i am still researching the cause.

Anyone else been seeing this besides us?

--
Patrick Lodder
p.lodder () yifan net


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