Could not load local profile (sometimes)

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Jay

Sometimes when I log into WinXP I get the error that it can not load my
profile because it might be corrupt. Well, when I restart my computer and
log in again it loads just fine. Anyone else have this inconsistant problem?
Have you found a fix?

I've gone through the MS articles that I could find and did some of the
suggestions like creating a new user but I still have the problem.

- Jerry
 
Hi Jay

(Courtesy of MS-MVP Kelly Theriot)


Suggestions:

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

Hope this helps.
 
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