Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7 Issue

Background


From time to time you may notice that when logging into your Windows 7 machine, the system will throw you up a message stating that you are being logged in with a temporary profile.  Once logged in with this temporary profile you will be greeted by nothing apart from a nice clean desktop with only the Recycling Bin to keep you company.

If you try and browse to your documents via the normal methods then you will find nothing.

Don't fret!  Your profile and associated files, settings etc should be fine.  To check this is the case take a look within the following location on your machine:

C:\Windows\Users\[username]

Should you find yourself in this situation simply carry out the following steps and this should resolve your issues.

Resolution 

  • Log into your system via local administrator account or with your standard credentials (the temporary profile)
  • Open the Registry Editor by typing "regedit" in the find box within the Windows 7 Start menu
  • Navigate to the following location within the Registry Editor
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList 
  • You will notice a profile under the ProfileList which ends with ".bak", this will be your corrupt profile
    • If you are logged in with a temporary profile you may notice two identical profile identifiers listed, only one of them will end in .bak
    • IF this is the case rename the identical profile without the .bak at the end to "profile-id_new" 
      • For example profile "s-1-5-21-*****-*****" would become "s-1-5-21-*****-*****_new" 
  • Now rename the profile ID that ends in .bak and simply remove the .bak from the ID
  • Log off or restart your machine completely
  • Log on again
  • Hey Presto, your original profile should be back

Causes

This issue has been put in front of me twice and in both instances there was no indication as to what caused the issues.  As the issues took place on remote machines I simply resolved the issues and the users went about their business.

The next time this happens I will attempt to look through the event logs etc to try and figure out possible causes for this issue.

Giving Credit Where It Is Due


The above solution is taken from steps provided by SysProbs

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