All Windows XP Documents and Settings folder names caps

We use XP in a business environment. Recently, we have noticed that some user in "Documents and Settings" folders on a particular machine have changed randomly to be appointed with all caps. This causes problems with their profiles. What could have caused this?

In addition, some files have changed to say the username followed by a point and our domain name. Do not know what is happening. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Windows keeps cases in the names of files and folders, but when you access to files and folders, it is case-insensitive (i.e. upper/lower case is not serious).

Records of the changing profile of user name directly to a username followed by a point and a domain name, on the other hand, comes following a corrupt user profile.  Corrupted user profiles usually occur as a result of (or comes from) the corruption of the file system.  Corruption of system files may result in the capitalization of the problems that you notice.  To recover a corrupted user profile, choose your method of the following:

"How to recover damaged Windows XP user profile"

<>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/555473 >

"Windows XP problems if your profile is corrupted"

<>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326688 >

"How to copy data from a corrupted to a new profile in Windows XP user profile"

<>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/811151 >

As file system corruption is very marked, you must also perform a check disk (chkdsk) operation with the "/ R" or "Repair" option to ensure that your file system is in good shape:

"How to perform the disk error checking in Windows XP"

<>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315265 >

HTH,

JW

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