Profiles and new windows (Windows Vista / Server 2008)

Back in the good old days before Vista and Server 2008 when you had a user with a bad profile you would simply rename the user’s profile to .old and have the user log in and a new clean profile was create for them It was simple. However simple trick us IT people have used for so many years as our bread and butter on customers machines and terminal servers just got more complicated.

Microsoft has added a new complication.

After you rename or delete the user’s folder they will log in and find themselves in a temp folder that disappears after log off along with anything the user did in that profile.

So here is the solution.

Delete or rename the folder as you would usually do then open the registry editor and browse to:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Expand the tree and you will find SID’s for all your users. Track down all the SID’s for your user and delete them (yes there may be more than one for each user). You will find their user name and path to their profile stored in the key ‘ProfileImagePath’ within each SID. Now when they log in they will have a new clean and fresh profile just like they use to be able to.

Happy computing!

Well tap3w0rm fans here it is my update.


I don’t know if my marriage is going to last the test of time or even another week at this point. From looking at my outbox I am at job application 2000+ (yes that two thousand) and so far no takers. I have done bunches of phone interviews and nothing.


I guess either I suck ass or the economy is REALLY in the shitter more than I thought.


The unemployment thing is an issue with my wife and I. It’s the thing we fight about every day when she gets home from work. And the fights just keep getting bigger.



I am writing this kind of rad program for the biz I am trying to start up with marauder but other than that we have nothing. Our little outing to see all the local shops and try and drum up business didn’t profit anything accept one laptop that we could not fix in the end.



This is the shittiest year I have ever had.


I am now actually depressed. My dream of a computer company of my own is going down the drain and I think marauder is fed up with me. My attitude has been poorer each week we get together and I think he is getting to the point where he wants to call this off. I should have known this was going to happen but I dared to dream. The next step (and this is my goal for tomorrow) is to drum up business with the general public. Through craigslist ads and the like. Let’s see if we can un suck

I have had a revelation. I haven't seen clearly in the month’s sense I was laid off and have lied to myself so much the truth was nothing more than a vague pretense to continue living. The lies were subtle like: I have no future, I am depressed, and I am worthless.

I came to a few revelations in my sleep last night. After going to see wicked and having a few drinks. We went to my parent’s house and they had guests over. We sat and played the WII and had fun watching the comedy channel. I haven't had fun like that in what seems to be forever. It lifted my heart and brought me out of the fog of my lies about how much my life sucked. Turns out I was wrong.

I won't ever get another good paying IT job again anytime soon. It’s just not going to happen. Especially in this economy. But that's ok I will survive and even thrive.

I have let down everyone in my life including one of my best friends Aaron and my wife. I feel ashamed by my cowardice but I have faced up to a few facts. Life sucks. It sucks for others worse. Get the fuck over it.

My stress level is artificially inflated due to my over developed sense of doom. It’s not as bad as I think it is. I need to do more relaxing things and maybe I will be able to feel normal and function correctly.

Getting laid off is not my fault and I need to stop punishing myself. I did nothing wrong. It could have been anyone. Just a roll of the dice. No one’s fault.

The last item is a big one. I partially realized this while on the phone with Aaron the other night when I think I slightly broke down and started venting on how bad I thought my life was. The rest of it came in my dreams. He had called me to tell me basically I was being a worthless business partner and a poor friend and most of all he was hurt and angry at me. And he was right. We are trying to start a business together and I have been the most worthless business partner ever and a shitty friend. I vow now to admit this and to move on and step up and be a man. Why this has taken me nearly 5 months to figure out I have no idea. I am fucked in the head. But I realize that now and I think that counts for something.

I was suppose to call Aaron yesterday but I got wrapped up in having fun out at dinner, the play, and then finally my parents house. I totally let it slip my mind. Now this sounds like a bad thing but is actually a good thing. Before a never called him back because I was so depressed I could not bring myself to be useful. This time it was that I had so little stress that my whole life and stress just melted away. This is a first in a long time. I forgot because I wasn't stressed. This is a nearly miracle. After I post this I am going to message him a link to this post. I hope this sheds some light on why I have been a rotten friend and a bad business partner. I can't apologize for what I have done. But I think this may be a start towards repentance. I also hope I can keep myself in this mindset and not sick back down

Stress multiplies stress.

This sounds stupid but. I felt like everything wrong that happened in my life was increasing gravity by another factor of one. Making my other stress heavier as well. If I don't recreate or force myself to have fun my stress is going to crush me under its weight. My stress load was so great I was taking my friends and family for granted.

This is the time of my life.

Aaron and I are creating our own company. Something I have wanted as far back in my childhood I can't ever remember wanting anything else. We have phone, Internet, A website, Business cards, suppliers, Business licenses, and Aarons money to make it happen. Why the fuck am I not excited. This is the greatest day of my life and only getting better every day!! What's wrong with me?!?!

So this is a public declaration of epiphany.

My life doesn't suck I have everything I ever wanted. A loving supportive wife. A business that's going to be successful and the most patent business partner ever.

I am not being punished by not having a job. It’s a blessing opening up the door to a new life that is more than I ever dreamed.

I need to stop punishing myself for the past and be future minded. When I punish myself I punish those around me and they don’t deserve it. The future will not suck. It will be bright and filled with the stuff of my dreams if I just let it.

No one is keeping me down but myself.

This sounds like a lame self help book. But it is true. I am my own master and I am acting like a fool. Always looking down and thinking life sucks. I finally had one good night of fun and relaxation so great that I lifted my head out of the cloud and looked back down at myself and just had to laugh at how stupid I have been.

I was waiting so long for life to turn around and stop sucking I never realized that it already did the moment I lost my job. I got everything I wanted and more. Being unemployed was an opportunity not a failure. I needed this. And I got everything and didn't realize it.
I am the stupidest man walking this earth. I am the fool and the coward. Too foolish to see the light and too cowardly to look up where the light may be.

Thank you anyone who reads this and thank Aaron and my wife Courtney for putting up with my shit. Hopefully I won't be shoveling any more shit onto my life. I know I sound like an idiot coming to a realization everyone else knows.

- tap3w0rm the ridiculous.

So i was taking this online microsoft exam and came across the folowng questions.

i am swered what i thought was the answers they wanted. The last question i had to answer honistly. i took the missed point with pride!

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Shroom and I put what we had together and came up with a KMZ file for Google earth and maps. It's a file containing the blueprints for Reynolds high school. We have other files for other schools but this is the one we really care about.Once you get it zoom in to see all the areas on the blue prints.


click here to download it for Google earth:

http://www.tap3w0rm.com/e107_files/downloads/Reynolds_High_School.kmz

Click here to see it in Google maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.tap3w0rm.com%2F%2Fe107_files%2Fdownloads%2FReynolds_High_School.kmz&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=45.528374,-122.402319&spn=0.001447,0.002403&z=19

Check out my broken hand! I have the x-rays that were taken at providence medical center. My doctor: Samuel V. Bartholomew, M.D.
Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Surgery of the Hand
Aesthetic Surgery One of the best doctors I have ever had. He made me feel well taken care of and listened to me. I did come from Kaiser (the land of crappy medical service) so maybe my sense of what good medical care is.

Below are images of my broken hand based on the x-ray date i find that the first set is the best you can see how far the bone deviated.

2009-01-01

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2009-01-05

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2009-01-15

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2009-01-26

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2009-02-23

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 Shrooms significant other Mary is back from her adventures in central America. It's nice to have her back. I still haven’t seen her yet but YEA!!!

She kept a blog while she was there and you can read it here: http://maryinhonduras.blogspot.com/

Long time no type tap3w0rm fans.

Here is all the news you need.

I got laid off from LandAmerica and am now surviving on unemployment while I look for work. Guess what! Work is just about impossible to come across.

I broke my hand on jan 1st 2009 and am now able to type 100% again. So that’s good I guess.

I am trying to start up some stuff with marauder1371 but as of late we haven’t done shit. We are looking for a CPA to talk with but so far no good. I have contacted 2 different ones and neither of them has gotten back to me. I assume it’s just their busiest time. Once we have a CPA we will get all our biz docs filed and start doing business.

I am going to post my resume here if anyone cares to look it over.

Shroom is back in town he was away to Nicaragua and mulkizzle ( his significant other ) is due back from south America in a few days I think she has been gone for about 6 months I think.

I have written some scripts and a mobile program that I wish to throw up on here eventually but as it is now I am way to lazy. The scripts are intended for an AD environment and only work if you an admin on the domain. The program is for windows mobile. It hooks the incoming call and shows you the city and state the call is coming from for any caller that’s not in your phone book. One of the features I included was the ability to not just ignore the call but to have the phone automatically hang up on whoever it is next time they call.

I spent a week downloading different Linux distributions and installing them on my laptop. I can’t believe I am going to say this out loud. Ubuntu beat my favorite gentoo when it came to functionality. I was astounded. Ubuntu has come quite a way in the last few years and I think is finally a worthwhile product.

I am however still a fan of the built from source distributions like Gentoo but could live with ubuntu. I am trying to make myself use ubuntu on my laptop for 3 months. I am now on week three and still going fine.

Like I said it makes me feel dirty. But whatever If it works I will try it out. The ubuntu community has done a wonderful job of getting everything working correctly. The installer is strait forward and the general defaults that are chosen for you out of the box when you’re done with the install are very nice.

I will have more on that eventually. As well as some findings on all the MS 2008 products including exchange, server, SQL and several other products.

So it’s time to try and sleep. I have been sick for a few days. I hope I can manage to fall asleep tonight and not just lay their not able to sleep.

Orban/Coding Technologies AAC/aacPlus Player Plugin™
enables playing AAC/aacPlus® streams and files using Microsoft® Windows Media® Player

Obrian has released a plug-in that will allow windows media player versions 6.4 / 7.0 / 7.1 / 8.0 / 9.0 / 10.0 / 11.0 to play AAC audio.

This rocks totally and completely as we have a no winamp policy for our machines at work. We also have a no streaming audio policy but i for our laptop users and from home workers this is good news. We have no idea with the music stream as long as it doesn’t traverse our network.

http://www.orban.com/plugin/ <- Link to the plugin
http://www.orban.com/plugin/License.html <- Link to the license
http://www.orban.com/plugin/Read_Me.html <- Link to detailed information