User Profile Lost - Vista Ultimate

After checkdisk ran on startup I now find whenever I start up I am given a
Temporary User Profile. This machine is not on a domain, no roaming profile
applied and I have made no user permission changes (one or all of these seem
to be incorrectly assumed by every reference I find on the net).

I can get to User Profiles in Control Panel where I have entered my Home
Folder > Local path details but don't know what value to put in User Profile
> Profile Path.
Does anyone know where this is (or should be) located?

TIA,

Rob

Hi,

The is usually blank. If your profile is corrupted, you will need to create
a new one as they are generally not recoverable. Once created, you can take
ownership of and copy over data from your old profile before deleting it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"RobDee" <robd@terra.es> wrote in message
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> After checkdisk ran on startup I now find whenever I start up I am given a
> Temporary User Profile. This machine is not on a domain, no roaming
> profile applied and I have made no user permission changes (one or all of
> these seem to be incorrectly assumed by every reference I find on the
> net).
>
> I can get to User Profiles in Control Panel where I have entered my Home
> Folder > Local path details but don't know what value to put in User
> Profile
> > Profile Path.
> Does anyone know where this is (or should be) located?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rob

Thanks for confirmation Rick. I had another machine with Ultimate on in the
same room and it finally occurred to me (I'd had a late night) to compare
settings. You are of course correct, the registry holds the profile settings
(via the NTUSER.dat file).

I set up a new user, migrated my stuff across and have luckily had very few
problems with progs running as I want them to. Office needed a new user
confirmation and toolbars etc needed redoing.
I was surprised in my net search how common this appears to be with Vista -
lots of people tearing their hair out over it.

Rob

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23kxh59I%23HHA.5840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> The is usually blank. If your profile is corrupted, you will need to
> create a new one as they are generally not recoverable. Once created, you
> can take ownership of and copy over data from your old profile before
> deleting it.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "RobDee" <robd@terra.es> wrote in message
> news:5l4ppqF6euk1U1@mid.individual.net...
>> After checkdisk ran on startup I now find whenever I start up I am given
>> a Temporary User Profile. This machine is not on a domain, no roaming
>> profile applied and I have made no user permission changes (one or all of
>> these seem to be incorrectly assumed by every reference I find on the
>> net).
>>
>> I can get to User Profiles in Control Panel where I have entered my Home
>> Folder > Local path details but don't know what value to put in User
>> Profile
>> > Profile Path.
>> Does anyone know where this is (or should be) located?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Rob
>