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User Profile Problem

16 years ago

Hope someone can help. The error is:

Your 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.

The computer is a Vista HP laptop. I was deleting 'undesirable' files & trying to remove the previous owner's name from appearing on my documents. Other than that, it was working nicely til I messed up. I don't know what to look for in the event log or who/what the administrator is.

I don't want to make this situation worse. Is there a file(s) I should try to recover with Recuva?

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
I would instead do a system restore to before you did any of the deleting and messing around, it sounds like you deleted part of the admin login

Restoring Windows Vista to a previous State
wendy_on
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you. I will do the restore. Will I lose programs I installed?
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wendy_on
Original Author
16 years ago
Should I accept the date recommended or pick one just before the problem started? Thank you for any advice.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
you want to select the date just prior to when the problem started. Some things may need to be re installed depends really on what it is and if it was installed in that period of time that you will be going back over. The rest of your programs will be just fine this is not a reformat just a simple restore and can always be reversed should you need to.
wendy_on
Original Author
16 years ago
I did two restores - one when I thought the problem started & another 2 weeks prior. That did not help. I'm debating whether to do a third one using the suggested date, or just bring it to a professional. Any suggestions?
mikie_gw
16 years ago
If your temp login will let you
goto Control Panel, Users.. and make a new Username with admin privileges.

Login and use that one to move or open or delete any files in the orig user account that has messed up. After you're sure everything is working well for a month, go to control panel 'users and delete the original non working account.

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