After a recent re-install of XP via the SP3 DVD, I find that ANYTIME I try to access a user name (4 Terabytes of imported (moved over) data) some non-existent bullsht domain is arbitrarily added to that user, with a very illegal copy of the user name (say: XYZ, now becomes XYZ.XYZ:absupercalifragilisticexpialidotious) with the result that nothing works and nothing is accessible. Of course, user accounts in CP is totally useless and changes nothing. I am forced to revert to a single, very vulnerable user. My IT guys laugh at this (they are Cray 3 folks) as an ostensible security issue inserted by Microsoft. It takes them a quarter second to get around it, but I cannot have one of them live at my computer.Any actual help would be greatly appreciated.1 person needs an answerI do too

It's possibly a permissions issue because it isn't something that normally happens when copying backed up data to a user account (or to various user accounts) in a new install of XP. Perhaps you are mistakenly trying to copy over actual system files and not just data from the old user accounts. If this is what you've been doing then the operating system is just trying to do what you told it to. You can't "access a user name" from some user created on another system. This has nothing to do with a "security issue inserted by Microsoft" but rather is user error. Please describe your process.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!