Vista - User Profile was not loaded correctly

Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago.

Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile was
not loaded correctly. You have been logged on with a temporary profile.
Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see
the event log for details or contact your administrator"

Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support person, who was
unable to help me - he said he would research it and call me tomorrow (I
think it may have been the end of his shift!)

Everthing I do to on the computer is basically lost after it's shut down - i
lost all the music and data files that I had loaded on. I'm not very
technical, so if anyone has a solution (that I can understand), i would be
most appreciative. The machine appears to be amazingly fast and I am dying to
get going on it.
Thanks in advance

Hi,

Create a new profile for yourself in the control panel/Users and log into
it. Chances are good that the default profile is corrupt and you will not be
able to recover it. If you continue to use the temporary one, you will
continue to lose any settings and preferences you create.

Thanks Rick - on my third call to Dell they helped me do this, but not before
I had to resintall Vista on my machine, which of course deleted other
software that i now have to reinstall. However, I'm back in business, so
thanks!

I'm having the same issue. The complication for me is that I'm logging onto
a domain, so I can't just come up with a differently named profile.

Same issue here with my domain account that can't log on properly.

I've created other accounts in the domain and they all work fine, but my own
old account cannot load my profile. I get a warning about the temporary
profile being loaded and eventid 1515 and 1511 are logged in the application
log.

I've tried deleting my old profile from C:\Users but it still won't work. I
end up with the C:\Users\TEMP profile.


As this is a domain account (not using roaming profile from the network) I
can't carry out any account modifications on my PC that would help. I'd like
to start using my PC effectivly again, but it's hard when all settings are
cleared everytime I restart...

//Vista Business 64-bit (eng)

My problem was solved using this technique:
1. Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile.
2. Log on with another administrative account
3. Delete C:\Users\%username%
4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP
5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make
sure you pick your own profile.
6. Restart once again and then you're done!

Hope this helps someone using domain accounts instead of local ones!

Exactly this resolved the problem. Credits to Samir !

This worked for me also. But here are a few additional tips for people new to vista.

Windows XP stored these profiles in C:\document and settings, Where as Vista stores the information in the registry and on the C:\Users folder.

If you just delete the folder information (which I did at first), the profile is not deleted in its' entirety.

Hence the error messages when you try to log in as the same domain user you just deleted:
Error messages:
1>Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you into a temporary profile.
2>windows vista Your user profile was not loaded correctly temporary profile
3>vista windows profile service windows cannot find the local profile
4>TEMP profile created

Also the exact registry key in vista is shown below. To run the registry editor in vista,type in regedt32.exe in the search; in XP you did this either by the command prompt or the run command.

Registry key to edit:
Computer\HKel_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Now start going through the keys to determine what users you many want to delete.

Another option (and maybe the correct option) would be to just delete the user using the control panel.
Control panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Configure Advanced User Profile Properties(located on the left menu) and delete the profile you do not want anymore. By doing it this way, it will remove the registry settings and also the file system settings.

Is this a reply to a previous post? If so, where is that post because
your post is the only one in this thread.

Something that worked for me without deleting the profile.
1. Run chkdsk /r
2. Login to an admin account that works properly
3. Go to c:\users and delete all the temporary users
4. Restart
5. Login to your profile

Good luck!

I followed the steps of deleting the temp user, however, I am a little leary of deleting anything out of the registry. When I logon as the administrator and go to the control panel user accounts the domain user is not listed only the administrator account is listed. Should I change the computer setting to a workgroup and disjoin it from the domain before I start making any deletion out of the registry

You won't like it, but best practice on a used computer - obtained from
*anywhere* - is to clean install Windows. On a laptop, this usually means
restoring to factory condition.

Since this is a laptop, it may have a restore image on a partition. If there
were physical recovery disks, you should have received a set. If you
didn't, contact the laptop mftr.'s tech support and order a set. This is
usually very inexpensive.

I'm in desperate need of help. I've been trying to work on this for days
and have just recently starting getting somewhere thanks to this thread.

I inherited a 2nd hand laptop from my Mother's work. I erased ex-user's
name and I added a User profile under my name as Administrator. However,
Firefox starts giving me an error message about profile folder
directory. I managed to resolve that.

Once I resolved said problem above I started getting the "User Profile
Not Loading Properly" error message. I solved that, thanks to the steps
on this thread. So it seems that all is good, however, my wifi
connection started saying that I am connected to my wireless router but
the connectivity is limited. I'm unable to disconnect and reconnect even
when I've gone closer to the router. So I've got to restart. When that
happens and I'm downloading something using bittorrent any downloading
work in progress and even previously completed downloads disappear! So
I'm thinking that the whole "User Profile Not Loading Properly" isn't
completely fixed, after all if it is shouldn't it be saving previous
work?

Prior to this problem Bittorrent would automatically recommence where
it stopped downloading, but now whilst it has stopped asking me to
install Bittorrent at each restart it's still not saving what I'm
downloading.

I've followed the steps on this thread and the have gone to the
Registry and deleted all user names but the two I left there which is
mine and my Hubby's name. Hubby's being Administrator and we are going
to just use the Standard one. And there are three others named "system
profile", "system" and something else. I didn't think I should erase
those.

Any advise would be much appreciated.


--
Angelz

Hi Angelz--

If you're able to surf the web, I wouldn't worry about the message that your
connection is limited. It's doing the job for you.

As to where Bit Torrent downloads, you can control that and it's not
downloading to a black whole, it's probably downloading to C:\downloads as a
default. It's saving what you download--you aren't looking where it's
saving to. If you go to Bit Torrent's toolbar Options>Preferences> you
have two boxes to type in where you want the downloads to end up:

Move downloads to
Move completed downloads to

Once you've made and chosen a download folder or chosen a download location
you already use, and put it in those two boxes, that's where they'll go.

You could make a folder on your data drive or on your C:\drive and call it
"downloads" or "bit torrent downloads" or "Angelz" downloads and type that
in the box.

Those other profiles are standard default profiles for Vista. They don't
have anything to do with where your torrent downloads are being placed.

If you want to change user profile location in Vista

Hi, I have an unusual problem for which I cannot find much help online.
I have a 250GB HDD with two partitions: one for WinXP and the other *.*