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Is there a way to repair a corrupt local profile on an XP system\

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Carl

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Q318011 - Error Message Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be
Corrupted: http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q318011
811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;811151
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"MS News" <Cal@obded.org> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to repair a corrupt local profile on an XP system\
>
> Thanks
>
> Carl
>

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Carl,

Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have to copy the account data to a new user account.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user profile.

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"MS News" <Cal@obded.org> wrote in message news:eN0dd3IsIHA.1952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Is there a way to repair a corrupt local profile on an XP system\

Thanks

Carl

[Gerry]

Ramesh

What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.

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Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have
> to copy the account data to a new user account.
>
> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
> Windows XP:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>
> Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user
> profile.

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Gerry,

Good question! Haven't faced that situation before, but if that happens (should be a rare thing to occur since the OS does not write to the Default User profile.) In case that happens, I would look into the %windir%\repair folder for a fresh NTUSER.DAT, created when installing Windows.

>> found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest

Interesting! Perhaps you can send it via PM if you don't want to post it here.

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message news:uWPpkGTsIHA.4788@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Ramesh

What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.

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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have
> to copy the account data to a new user account.
>
> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
> Windows XP:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>
> Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user
> profile.

[Gerry]

Ramesh

It is not my problem. It cropped up yesterday in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain and there are few reports on
the problem. I just thought it is the type of problem you enjoy.

Post 6 in this thread seems to deal with your problem but it requires
some computing skills which might deter me from taking on the task:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Copy-Admin...er-t64605.html

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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> Good question! Haven't faced that situation before, but if that
> happens (should be a rare thing to occur since the OS does not write
> to the Default User profile.) In case that happens, I would look into
> the %windir%\repair folder for a fresh NTUSER.DAT, created when
> installing Windows.
>
>>> found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest
>
> Interesting! Perhaps you can send it via PM if you don't want to post
> it here.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
> Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uWPpkGTsIHA.4788@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Ramesh
>
> What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
> only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.
>
>
> Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have
>> to copy the account data to a new user account.
>>
>> How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
>> Windows XP:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151
>>
>> Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user
>> profile.

[John John (MVP)]

You can simply copy the All Users and Default User profiles from any
other Windows XP installation to replace the corrupt ones on another
machine.

John

Gerry wrote:

> Ramesh
>
> It is not my problem. It cropped up yesterday in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain and there are few reports on
> the problem. I just thought it is the type of problem you enjoy.
>
> Post 6 in this thread seems to deal with your problem but it requires
> some computing skills which might deter me from taking on the task:
> http://www.msfn.org/board/Copy-Admin...er-t64605.html
>

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Yes. That would work. Also make sure that the %systemdrive% and %windir% locations are same in the other XP system (where you're copying from) as well. However, I would first look at the %windir%\repair folder for a replacement copy.

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"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:%23a4TFWVsIHA.5724@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
You can simply copy the All Users and Default User profiles from any
other Windows XP installation to replace the corrupt ones on another
machine.

John

Gerry wrote:

> Ramesh
>
> It is not my problem. It cropped up yesterday in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain and there are few reports on
> the problem. I just thought it is the type of problem you enjoy.
>
> Post 6 in this thread seems to deal with your problem but it requires
> some computing skills which might deter me from taking on the task:
> http://www.msfn.org/board/Copy-Admin...er-t64605.html
>