Hi,

Sounds like her profile is corrupt and a temporary one is being created.
Generally these are not recoverable. I would create a new one and copy the
data from the old one into it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Cap'n" <captain.black******.com> wrote in message
news:9db534a3-9ddd-4e2d-8eb6-0efdc77a968f@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi ... My GF has a problem with her Vista - she's finding that when
> she logs on (with the same profile she always has), the desktop she
> sees isn't the one she always did, but it now appears to be the
> desktop from the 'Public' profile (in the 'Users' folder. Her profile
> 'Susie' is still there).
>
> I'm not sure how, but the profiles seem to have been switched - her
> 'Susie' login profile now points(?) at the 'Public' profile folder,
> instead of the 'Susie' profile folder...
>
> I hope this makes sense! Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Cheers ... Mark[/color]