Re: DST woes - you won't believe this one

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Darrell,

I can't help you with the DST part of it, but item 4 caught my eye.  I 
recently tried to install Windows Services for Unix on a WinXP Pro 
machine and after reboot saw the same problem.  For some reason, Windows 
had created new folders under C:\Documents and Settings named 
"userid.computername"; the original setting for the user were still 
there under a "userid" folder.

This also happened when someone installed something (possibly a Windows 
Update?) on a WinXP home PC.

Copying the files from "userid" to "userid.computername" seemed to solve 
the problem.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /

Darrell A Martin wrote:
> This is just too ... well, it just is.
>
> 1. User is running Win2KPro on a laptop.
> 2. Automated updates don't work for some reason.
> 3. Network admin forced critical updates earlier this week to deal with
> Y2Klock.
> 4. User lost all personal settings, including connection to network
> printer.
>
> So, the network admin has been trying to fry other fish this week, and
> every morning I have been resetting the time on about 2/3 of all the
> Win-based servers and PCs acting as servers. Today I finally got a chance
> to look at the above user's laptop.
>
> 5. Got the printer connected.
> 6. Verified that (for the moment) the time was correct to within a second
> or two.
> 7. Attempted a manual Windows Update using the Microsoft Web site.
> 8. Got an error. The message was:
>
>    -----------------------------
>    You cannot download this file
>    because your date and time
>    are not properly synched ...
>    -----------------------------
>
> "Sorry, you can't go in the Emergency Room because you are bleeding too
> profusely."
>
> Darrell
>
> Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
> Manager, Computer Operations
> dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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