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Chev, thanks for the help. What I want to know is how I have 20 other machines in the same setup WITHOUT issues! The problem only exist over our WAN at 1 location! Oh boy, and they HATE me there by now.....lol...... Thanks, MP

Hi, Another new one for me. One user logs in and all desktop icons have a pinkish "X" on them in the lower left and none of the icon work, AKA, you get an error message when you click on them: "the operation on (path to file) was started with and invalid parameter" Nice Windows 8.1...

Update: Hi, Well, the problem persist. The fix above works, but ONLY one time and only if I remove those users from the Domain group policy. If they are part of the group policy, they can log in ok after the reset, but then in a day or so, they are right back to square one. Something in...

Re.. Hi, Not sure but this is happening on my Lenovo (IBM) machines. Thanks, M

Solution found... Hi, I found a solution. My problem was I could log into several local windows 8.1 workstations as user A fine, but when i tried to log in to identical workstations over my wan, i would get errors, this being the most common: "Desktop is unavailable. If the location is on...

Profile extension versions... Hi, Here you can see it refers to V4, not v3....Which is not really my problem. Works fine on some machines. Incompatibility between Windows 8.1 roaming user profiles and those in earlier versions of Windows FYI Thanks,

interesting... Hi chev, Thanks for the reply. I have already done that and I get V4 profile extensions ans as i read in a MS article Win 8.1 should have a V4, not a V3 for Win 7. As stated, I can log in fine and it all works on some PC's, others not. They are identical builds. thanks, Mark

Hi, Sys: Windows 8.1 Pro clients attached to MS 2003 server domain. (yes I know its best to have a higher win server version with 8.1, but i do not have that currently) Ok, so the problem is that roaming profiles and folder redirection work but on only SOME of the windows 8.1 clients...