Cannot load the user's profile

I've seen this problem elsewhere, but none of the fixes work for this user
and PC. The problem is, whenever anyone logs in, an error box pops up saying
"Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
default profile. Detail: cannot find the specified file."

I have moved and renamed the user's profile to another location on the
drive, and when the user logs in, it builds a new profile but still gives the
error message. The goofy thing is this:

1. ALL users that login to this PC have the same error when logging in, even
new users.

2. One particular user has this happen not only on this PC, but on other PCs
(we are in a domain).

Any ideas?

=?Utf-8?B?VmF1Z2hu?= <Vaughn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:C67F4D1B-D682-438D-AAE3-2673588E91BE@microsoft.com:

> I've seen this problem elsewhere, but none of the fixes work for
> this user and PC. The problem is, whenever anyone logs in, an
> error box pops up saying "Windows cannot load the user's profile
> but has logged you on with the default profile. Detail: cannot
> find the specified file."
>
> I have moved and renamed the user's profile to another location on
> the drive, and when the user logs in, it builds a new profile but
> still gives the error message. The goofy thing is this:
>
> 1. ALL users that login to this PC have the same error when
> logging in, even new users.
>
> 2. One particular user has this happen not only on this PC, but on
> other PCs (we are in a domain).
>
> Any ideas?
>

How did you "move and rename" the user profiles?
Did you use the procedure described in the following article?:

"Configuration of the My Documents folder"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310746>

HTH,
John

I created a temporary storage location for the profile and cut and pasted it
to the new location, then renamed it. Then the next time the user logged in,
her profile had to be recreated by XP Pro.

"John Wunderlich" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?VmF1Z2hu?= <Vaughn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:C67F4D1B-D682-438D-AAE3-2673588E91BE@microsoft.com:
>
> > I've seen this problem elsewhere, but none of the fixes work for
> > this user and PC. The problem is, whenever anyone logs in, an
> > error box pops up saying "Windows cannot load the user's profile
> > but has logged you on with the default profile. Detail: cannot
> > find the specified file."
> >
> > I have moved and renamed the user's profile to another location on
> > the drive, and when the user logs in, it builds a new profile but
> > still gives the error message. The goofy thing is this:
> >
> > 1. ALL users that login to this PC have the same error when
> > logging in, even new users.
> >
> > 2. One particular user has this happen not only on this PC, but on
> > other PCs (we are in a domain).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> How did you "move and rename" the user profiles?
> Did you use the procedure described in the following article?:
>
> "Configuration of the My Documents folder"
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310746>
>
> HTH,
> John
> .
>

>> =?Utf-8?B?VmF1Z2hu?= <Vaughn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> news:C67F4D1B-D682-438D-AAE3-2673588E91BE@microsoft.com:
>>
>>> I've seen this problem elsewhere, but none of the fixes work for
>>> this user and PC. The problem is, whenever anyone logs in, an
>>> error box pops up saying "Windows cannot load the user's profile
>>> but has logged you on with the default profile. Detail: cannot
>>> find the specified file."
>>>
>>> I have moved and renamed the user's profile to another location
>>> on the drive, and when the user logs in, it builds a new profile
>>> but still gives the error message. The goofy thing is this:
>>>
>>> 1. ALL users that login to this PC have the same error when
>>> logging in, even new users.
>>>
>>> 2. One particular user has this happen not only on this PC, but
>>> on other PCs (we are in a domain).
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> How did you "move and rename" the user profiles?
>> Did you use the procedure described in the following article?:
>>
>> "Configuration of the My Documents folder"
>> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310746>
>>
>> HTH,
>> John
>> .
=?Utf-8?B?VmF1Z2hu?= <Vaughn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:00D75CC0-65B2-437E-96ED-B299C6DDF113@microsoft.com:

> I created a temporary storage location for the profile and cut and
> pasted it to the new location, then renamed it. Then the next time
> the user logged in, her profile had to be recreated by XP Pro.

So what you did is moved the whole user profile without telling Windows
where you put it so that next time Windows started up and looked in the
prior location for the profile and didn't find it there, it had no
choice but to create another profile. -- Expected behavior.

What you are doing (moving location of local user profiles) is not
supported by Microsoft, but they do give instructions on how to do it
in the following KB article:

"An error message informs you that you cannot move or rename the
Documents and Settings folder" under the paragraph:
"To move only user-specific data"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843>

HTH,
John