Documents and Settings Folder Was Renamed By Update

[fly3ag...@gmail.com]

I recently (week of October 9th, 2006) ran a Microsoft 2000 update.
After the update, I restarted the computer and found that the Documents
and Settings folder had been renamed to D□cuments and Settings.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

[shrimpyguy]

hi its happend to me be for you get use to it after a while you can reinstall windows if you want to get rid of it or you can restore your computer before you did it
shrimpyguy

[cfraser]

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I'd just live with it, but I never use Microsoft Update, except once
for SP4, which I manually downloaded and installed anyway.

[fly3ag...@gmail.com]

Does Win2K have the restore capability? I did not back up the registry
so I cannot restore that way.

Is there any other way to get it pointing back to the correct Documents
and Settings folder?

Printer drivers, external hard drive drivers, all useless. For some
strange reason, I can't even save a download from IE.

[cfraser]

What's with the make-do HTML coding? You don't need to show off for
people to notice you. Been there, done that, fought the cat, seen the
movie AND bought the T-shirt and what a world of good it didn't do. And
no, Windows 2000 does not have the restore facility - but who needs it?

[cfraser]

No, the restore capability was introduced with Windows ME, which is in
essence the "end users" version of Windows 2000, but it wasn't based on
the NT Kernel, for some silly reason. Being for business, you'd think
Windows 2000 would have the restore capability, but its so stable you
hardly need it ever. Windows XP (which is a joke) does have the restore
capability but there you are. I found myself constantly using it
(sometimes on a weekly basis) in XP and now I downgraded to 2000 I
almost forgot it existed.

A year or two ago I would have let a problem like this bother me, but,
if the system works fine and it doesn't affect your output, why bother
going to such efforts to put such a small thing (that, don't forget,
Microsoft ballsed up) right that, really, doesn't matter?

I'm all open to suggestions and comments.

[fly3ag...@gmail.com]

On Oct 30, 3:28 am, "cfraser" <cfraser2...@fsmail.net> wrote:
> I'm all open to suggestions and comments.

I sort of worked around the problem a bit.

I simply created a new user. When logging in as this user, I have
access to all the previously installed programs and settings. It just
the user "Administrator" is now unusable. No big deal, I just thought
it was very mysterious that a Microsoft Update would rename a folder
"D□cuments and Settings".

[cfraser]

Why though? I have Asperger Syndrome and even I wouldn't bother with
something like this. Sorry for the Anti-MS attitude, I have a tendency
to "go off on one" but I'm trying to change that now. How is
Administrator profile unusable? (Did you delete it??!)