Sometime over the past three months our web server is now automatically
creating User profiles when users change their password while accessing a web
site. Something similar is also happening to our Windows XP SP2 machines. For
example, if I run a script against all our computers to check if a modem is
installed a User Profile will be created for my account.

This has never happened before so I can only suspect a Microsoft patch did
this. Any idea on how this can be stopped? What initiated it?

I appreciate any responses. Thank you

-brian-

RE: User Profiles being automatically created for local user accounts by Inoffensive

Inoffensive
Tue Mar 28 12:29:02 CST 2006

This is regarding XP, not the web server: Whenever you run scripts using
your account name in a domain, the target computer will always create your
profile as you're running the script using your profile (For example, it will
extract a package to be installed in your profile's temp folder). I don't
think the same applies for service accounts.

I have no idea as to what "started" it, as I thought it'd be default
behavior...


"Brian W" wrote:

> Sometime over the past three months our web server is now automatically
> creating User profiles when users change their password while accessing a web
> site. Something similar is also happening to our Windows XP SP2 machines. For
> example, if I run a script against all our computers to check if a modem is
> installed a User Profile will be created for my account.
>
> This has never happened before so I can only suspect a Microsoft patch did
> this. Any idea on how this can be stopped? What initiated it?
>
> I appreciate any responses. Thank you
>
> -brian-
>