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Guest
Hi,
This seems a similar problem to that noted by Bea below: as yet unanswered.
(Is something going around?)
Old Dell laptop, XPHome.
On logging out of one profile and logging back on in my normal
(administrator) one, 'userenv' in event log says a 'temporary' profile was
substituted, and it would disappear on logging out. Not a bit of it!
Now all I get after log on is the blue basic dell screen and a handful of
standard desktop icons.
Windows explorer shows that my folders and files are still there, but I
cannot find any way to reassociate them with my user id, which now seems to
be permanently referenced to this unwanted empty new one.
There are still NTUser.dat and NTUser.dat.log files in the 'real me' folder,
and the former is still a good 6meg full of data. The first lines of these
two files seem to share a similar structure and relationship to those on my
pc profiles, yet they seem to be being ignored in the log on process, even
though I am still getting in with the same userid and password!
The 4 userenv messages went like this:
Unable to load registry: the process cannot access the file because it is
being used by another process for..... \ntuser.dat
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this
error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile.
Detail - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.
Windows has backed up this user's profile [WHERE?] Windows will
automatically try to use the backed up profile the next time the user logs
on.
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary
profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.
Well thanks a bunch!
I don't know my way round Home very well, and can't see how to bring up
dialogues that would enable me to take ownership of my own folders again.
There seems to be no 'use simple file sharing' tick box to untick and get a
security tab detailing the permissions and inheritance situation/ownership
etc. And when I try to change attributes on my real files from read only -
which they all seem to have been rebranded - back to normal, the change does
not stick (though they can be deleted).
Userpasswords and userpasswords2 via run both show 'only one' me, and still
as an administrator, but I cannot see how to get it to stop using the 'new
profile' and go back to the proper one!
Even more confusingly, there is another user, who just has a limited
account, but still signs in with a user name and password via ctrl alt del.
Yet he does not get a mention on user accounts at all, in either control
panel or userpasswords! He also used to show up on the welcome screen but
not now! Where is his account?
A final odd thing is that when I went to tried a system restore, I found
this had been turned off, though I have no recollection of having done
this - and would consider it madness to do so! When I turned it on, the
event log duly registered it, but, looking right back through the log, there
is no entry to say it was ever turned off!
Digging a little deeper, and right clicking for the properties sheet of 'the
new me's' 'my documents', I find my whole new package is in a Temp folder
c:\documents and settings\temp.
If I just empty this, will my logon revert to the proper files?
Even then, I still would not know where the limited account user's details
are and why they don't register in UA or userpasswords!
How can I go about getting my proper files reassociated with my user id, and
having all of the users on the machine properly represented in the
dialogues.
This one really does have me confused I am afraid. Any light that can be
thrown on this would be very helpful, thank you.
Much obliged,
S
This seems a similar problem to that noted by Bea below: as yet unanswered.
(Is something going around?)
Old Dell laptop, XPHome.
On logging out of one profile and logging back on in my normal
(administrator) one, 'userenv' in event log says a 'temporary' profile was
substituted, and it would disappear on logging out. Not a bit of it!
Now all I get after log on is the blue basic dell screen and a handful of
standard desktop icons.
Windows explorer shows that my folders and files are still there, but I
cannot find any way to reassociate them with my user id, which now seems to
be permanently referenced to this unwanted empty new one.
There are still NTUser.dat and NTUser.dat.log files in the 'real me' folder,
and the former is still a good 6meg full of data. The first lines of these
two files seem to share a similar structure and relationship to those on my
pc profiles, yet they seem to be being ignored in the log on process, even
though I am still getting in with the same userid and password!
The 4 userenv messages went like this:
Unable to load registry: the process cannot access the file because it is
being used by another process for..... \ntuser.dat
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this
error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile.
Detail - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by
another process.
Windows has backed up this user's profile [WHERE?] Windows will
automatically try to use the backed up profile the next time the user logs
on.
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary
profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.
Well thanks a bunch!
I don't know my way round Home very well, and can't see how to bring up
dialogues that would enable me to take ownership of my own folders again.
There seems to be no 'use simple file sharing' tick box to untick and get a
security tab detailing the permissions and inheritance situation/ownership
etc. And when I try to change attributes on my real files from read only -
which they all seem to have been rebranded - back to normal, the change does
not stick (though they can be deleted).
Userpasswords and userpasswords2 via run both show 'only one' me, and still
as an administrator, but I cannot see how to get it to stop using the 'new
profile' and go back to the proper one!
Even more confusingly, there is another user, who just has a limited
account, but still signs in with a user name and password via ctrl alt del.
Yet he does not get a mention on user accounts at all, in either control
panel or userpasswords! He also used to show up on the welcome screen but
not now! Where is his account?
A final odd thing is that when I went to tried a system restore, I found
this had been turned off, though I have no recollection of having done
this - and would consider it madness to do so! When I turned it on, the
event log duly registered it, but, looking right back through the log, there
is no entry to say it was ever turned off!
Digging a little deeper, and right clicking for the properties sheet of 'the
new me's' 'my documents', I find my whole new package is in a Temp folder
c:\documents and settings\temp.
If I just empty this, will my logon revert to the proper files?
Even then, I still would not know where the limited account user's details
are and why they don't register in UA or userpasswords!
How can I go about getting my proper files reassociated with my user id, and
having all of the users on the machine properly represented in the
dialogues.
This one really does have me confused I am afraid. Any light that can be
thrown on this would be very helpful, thank you.
Much obliged,
S