Cannot Load Local Profile

[Felicia]

Hello all you brilliant techies. xoxox I am a Windows XP
user and I am hoping that you can offer some advice for
the following error message I have received for the past
three days when I boot up my computer: (User
Environment: "Windows cannot load the locally stored
profile. Possible causes of this error include
insufficient security rights or a corrupt local
profile..") My computer then puts me in a temporary
profile where any changes that I make are lost when I log
off. How do I get back to my local profile? Any advice
you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks so much!!

P.S. I just recently discovered that the Blaster Virus
had resurfaced on my computer so I was wondering if this
could be the cause of the problem. (I did the patch &
worm removal process again for the second time).

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Sometimes user profiles become corrupted by malware or an
unexpected and "ungraceful" shutdown, such as one caused by a power
outage. This is not typically a result of the Blaster worm, but there
may be a new variant that causes such corruption. Once corrupted,
though, a user profile is very likely to be irreparable.

Under these circumstances, your easiest course of action might
very well be to create a new user and profile and copy the files from
the old one to the new. To do so:

1) Restart the computer and log in using the built-in Administrator
account. (By design, the only way to log into the Administrator
account of WinXP Home is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro,
pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice at the Welcome Screen will produce the
standard login dialog box.)

2) Click Start > Run and enter "control userpasswords2" followed by
clicking "OK."

3) Click "Add....", creating a new username and filling in the
desired information, and then click "Next >"

4) Set the password as desired and click "Next >"

5) Select the desired privilege access level for the new user account
and click "Finish."

Please see the following Knowledge Base article for an alternate
method and more information:

HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

6) Once the new account has been created, follow the instructions in
the following Knowledge Base article to copy data from the corrupted
profile to the new one:

How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

7) Once you've got the new user account working as desired and all of
the data files transferred to the new account, it would be a good to
remove the corrupt user account and profile. Simply follow Steps 1
through 5 above, making the obvious alteration to delete the corrupt
account.


Bruce Chambers

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