Microsoft KB Archive/324150

= Windows XP Professional users receive a &quot;Windows cannot update your roaming profile&quot; error message when they log off =

Article ID: 324150

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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This article was previously published under Q324150





SYMPTOMS
If you want to monitor the disk space that roaming profiles use, and you redirected My Documents folders to the same Microsoft Windows 2000 volume that uses quotas, a Microsoft Windows XP user who logs off may receive the following error message:

Windows cannot update your roaming profile.

Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights.

If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.

The following event message may be logged in the system event log: Event ID: 112

Source: UserEnv

Details: Not enough space to write to the disk.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because Windows 2000 detects that the user does not have sufficient disk space to copy the profile.



RESOLUTION
This behavior is by design.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
Before Windows 2000 saves the profile, it calculates how much space is required to copy the profile. Then, Windows 2000 verifies the disk space that is available to the user. If the free space that is available to the user is less than what Windows 2000 requires to copy the profile, Windows 2000 returns the error message that this article describes.

Keywords: kbbug KB324150

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