Documents and Settings follow a recent Microsoft KB Patch

[Zone_V]

Hi,

Yesterday, my PC automatically updated and rebooted following a patch
received from Microsoft update. The system event viewer shows the following
event:

Restart Required: To complete the installation of the following updates, the
computer will be restarted within 5 minutes:
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2007 (KB890830)
- Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB926122)

After the reboot, it appeared that my desktop was completely reset as if I
had just reinstalled Windows2000. I think what happend is that the patch
somehow changed the folder references used under Documents and Settings to a
new version of my user. If I look under

c:\documents and settings\

I see:

Administrator
All Users
Zone_V
Zone_V.Matterhorn

From what I can tell, it looks like my account user, Zone_V is pointing to
Zone_V.Matterhorn instead of Zone_V. All the registry entries I need are
also associated with Zone_V.

How can I:

Change things so that my user references Zone_V instead of
Zone_V.Matterhorn? Then, how can I delete Zone_V.Matterhorn?

FWIW: Matterhorn happens to be PC Name.

Thanks for any help!


--
Zone_V

 

[Roger Fink]

This could be it:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40985 .
If you have a way to revert the system to a time before the patch was
installed you might try that.

My sense is that most of the MVPs on the OS boards don't have much affection
for GoBack, but for 98 & 2000 I don't know how you can run Windows without
it.


Zone_V wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, my PC automatically updated and rebooted following a patch
> received from Microsoft update. The system event viewer shows the
> following event:
>
> Restart Required: To complete the installation of the following
> updates, the computer will be restarted within 5 minutes:
> - Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2007 (KB890830)
> - Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB926122)
>
> After the reboot, it appeared that my desktop was completely reset as
> if I had just reinstalled Windows2000. I think what happend is that
> the patch somehow changed the folder references used under Documents
> and Settings to a new version of my user. If I look under
>
> c:\documents and settings\
>
> I see:
>
> Administrator
> All Users
> Zone_V
> Zone_V.Matterhorn
>
> From what I can tell, it looks like my account user, Zone_V is
> pointing to Zone_V.Matterhorn instead of Zone_V. All the registry
> entries I need are also associated with Zone_V.
>
> How can I:
>
> Change things so that my user references Zone_V instead of
> Zone_V.Matterhorn? Then, how can I delete Zone_V.Matterhorn?
>
> FWIW: Matterhorn happens to be PC Name.
>
> Thanks for any help!