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Sasafish
2008-05-25, 04:51
:lip:
After installing the lastest version I then uninstalled the last version, after that my daughters user wouldnt work and it was deleted and XP made a new one! We have 4 users.
Is there any connection here?
TIA

md usa spybot fan
2008-05-25, 07:08
Sasafish:

There is a problem with Spybot and corrupted user profiles. According to Patrick Kolla the problem only occurs under a very limited set of circumstances. See:
Spybot Corrupting user profiles
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=25448

There is an issue when you kill the Spybot-S&D process and then switch users, or switch users while it is still running, since it's trying to scan those and locking them. After a reboot (or closing Spybot-S&D) it'll be ok again.

That has nothing to do with uninstalling (except that uninstalling will terminate a running Spybot-S&D as well of course).

See also:
Fast User Switching during a scan (http://forums.spybot.info/project.php?issueid=201)
Terminal Services & user profiles (http://forums.spybot.info/project.php?issueid=200)