Help, my wife is going to kill me. (lost profile)

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Guest

Ok, so today I was erasing a bunch of old software. Then my wife needed the
computer, so she logged me off and signed on under her name. It wasn't
loading and then this popped up.

1. Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this
error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If
this problem persists, contact your network administrator. 2.Windows canno
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.

So we restarted the computer. When she clicked her profile, it took a long
time to load up. Finally when it loaded, it seemed to start like it was the
first time, nothing on the desktop, no bookmarks in firefox or explorer. She
was not too happy. She had a lot of important things on her desktop.
Fortunately I found all her desktop items under c:/documents and settings/her
name/desktop. I've been trying to find her bookmarks for the last few hours.
Just now I realized that when we sign on under her name, it actually signs
up under "temp.toshiba-user" instead of her stuff. So I'm assuming that all
her info is still around, we just can't get to it. So I need to know how
to sign back in under her name, not the temp file that was created.

Help before I'm dead!

Andy
 
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WTC

AO Photo said:
Ok, so today I was erasing a bunch of old software. Then my
wife needed the computer, so she logged me off and signed on
under her name. It wasn't loading and then this popped up.

1. Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible
causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt
local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network
administrator. 2.Windows canno 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.

Create a new user profile using data from her old user profile.

"Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted" error message
when you try to log on to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318011

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
 

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