Major Windows Bug Found!
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 13, 2005 at 3:19:42 PM
This bug was found by Steve. It occured on a computer in a domain running Windows XP Pro.
This is worse than it sounds. If you see an account "unknown" and delete it, say goodbye to your current user account. Windows starts deleting it that moment and the only way to stop it is to cut the power. You will literally see icons and documents being deleted in front of your eyes! Microsoft is working on a patch for this.
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My Computer>Properties>Advanced>User Profiles
Click on Settings
Under "Profiles stored on this computer" will be entries for every account that has logged on to the machine (representing the saved profile associated with the local or domain account).
Periodically a profile with a name of "unknown" will appear in the list (it should not).
If you select the "unknown profile" and click on delete, the currently logged in profile will be deleted with no warning to save the contents of the "My Documents" folder.
This is worse than it sounds. If you see an account "unknown" and delete it, say goodbye to your current user account. Windows starts deleting it that moment and the only way to stop it is to cut the power. You will literally see icons and documents being deleted in front of your eyes! Microsoft is working on a patch for this.