User Profile missing at DELAYED User Switching

Hi members

This the 3nd posting of an old problem because it occurs in many, many PC running xpWin.sp3.

In the 1st posting, I was advised that it could be due to 1) corrupted profile (solution: delete ntuser.dat) 2) virus infection or 3) hard disk intermittent failure. But the problem is quite different as diagnosed by respondents.

The key point is it relates to DELAYED user switching. The circumstances are as follows:

1) It happen on numerous PC with winxp.sp3, prof & home, each PC has a number of normal users and admin users

2) It only occur after booting & login as one user; after a LONG WHILE / HOURS, i try to switch to another user, sometimes (sometimes) this user profile is reported as missing.

3) On rebooting, all profiles become available on "users switching" provided "users switching" is done within a short time (less than an hour) after rebooting.

4) All profiles are working at each reboot, ie there is no corruption of the ntuse.dat file at all.

Hope some of you have this experience to share. Cheers!.

 

Not really in sleep/hibernate mode, need to double confirm this. If it comes after this mode, is there a way out of this?

From memory, it have occurred when 1st user is using the pc, and 2nd user want to switch in to do something else, then the missing profile problem still occur.

Steve, Thanks for the response.

 

Just found ...

PC after hibernation for few hours & login as User1, on waking and try switch to user2, no problem. This problem is intermittent on all pcs.

 

Are you talking about desktops or laptops?

 

Bill All Desktop PC running winxp.sp3.

 

Hibernation is usually for a laptop. I have 5 desktops, 4 XP and 1 Win 7. Monitor is set to Sleep in 5 minutes and HD in 5 also. I do the same with my laptop.

 

Bill there is a bit of miscom; actually the pcs are not in hibernation mode ever, they only have monitor and harddisk set to sleep with a certain minutes.

With this miscomm aside, any views about the issue in this thread.