Hi Rama,
I'm using Windows XP pro since 8 months. Since 1 month my personal settings are not getting displayed whenever I'm turning on the compter though they are getting saved while I exit. First it gets displyed as "loading your personal settings" and after some time "applying your settings" gets displyed and I see default settings on the desktop. How can I get my settings displyed?
(Courtesy of MS MVP Kelly Theriot)
Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager. Locate
the entries for your hard disks and double click each entry. On the
Policies tab, uncheck Enable write caching.
You will see a performance decrease because of this, but if the
corrupt registry/user profiles problems cease, then you'll be certain
of the cause.
Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.
Or...
Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a
system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began
to appear.
Or...
Relocate NTUserdat
Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change
and then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you
want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.
Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm
How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545
Recovery Console Fix for XP SP1 (Line 58)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Good luck
