Anyone,

When I try and logon to Windows 2000 using my
Administrator profile, I get the following
message: "Windows cannot load your profile because it may
be corrupted. Contact your administrator." Then a second
window appears indicating that a temporary user profile
will be created and that it will also be deleted when I
log off.

I don't know how this happened or how I can fix it. The
default administrator profile on the computer is the one
that got corrupted.

This seems to cause problems for the other profiles as
well. When I created a new admin profile, it exists, but
it cannot see other profiles and it sees profiles that
have since been deleted. It's very confusing, I'm not
sure where to go. Do I need to reload Windows? Is there
anything else I can do?

In Need of Dire Help

This article may help you.

User Profile May Become Corrupted After You Perform a Clean Windows 2000
Installation
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;296834


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

"Jeff" wrote:
| Anyone,
|
| When I try and logon to Windows 2000 using my
| Administrator profile, I get the following
| message: "Windows cannot load your profile because it may
| be corrupted. Contact your administrator." Then a second
| window appears indicating that a temporary user profile
| will be created and that it will also be deleted when I
| log off.
|
| I don't know how this happened or how I can fix it. The
| default administrator profile on the computer is the one
| that got corrupted.
|
| This seems to cause problems for the other profiles as
| well. When I created a new admin profile, it exists, but
| it cannot see other profiles and it sees profiles that
| have since been deleted. It's very confusing, I'm not
| sure where to go. Do I need to reload Windows? Is there
| anything else I can do?
|
| In Need of Dire Help

Logon with an account with administrative rights. Rename the Admins profile (see example).
Relogon as the Administrator and a NEW profile will be created. You can then copy needed
files or icons from the re-named, backup, directory and then delete it.

Example:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\...
renamed to
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.BAK\...

Dave



"Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:051f01c3cd9e$2615b6f0$(E-Mail Removed)...
| Anyone,
|
| When I try and logon to Windows 2000 using my
| Administrator profile, I get the following
| message: "Windows cannot load your profile because it may
| be corrupted. Contact your administrator." Then a second
| window appears indicating that a temporary user profile
| will be created and that it will also be deleted when I
| log off.
|
| I don't know how this happened or how I can fix it. The
| default administrator profile on the computer is the one
| that got corrupted.
|
| This seems to cause problems for the other profiles as
| well. When I created a new admin profile, it exists, but
| it cannot see other profiles and it sees profiles that
| have since been deleted. It's very confusing, I'm not
| sure where to go. Do I need to reload Windows? Is there
| anything else I can do?
|
| In Need of Dire Help