lost profile - please help !

[David Banks]

Hi

As you will guess from the rest of this post I am a bit of a computer
dinosaur, so please bear with me !

I stupidly turned my PC off by pressing the button on the base unit. When I
turned it on again I clicked on my name on the welcome screen as usual. The
following message then came up:

"Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you on with the default
profile for the system.
DETAIL - the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format"

I have no idea what this means ! All my favourites, background etc has been
lost !

The other profile on the welcome screen works fine.

I use windows XP.

Any advice very gratefully received.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi

As you will guess from the rest of this post I am a bit of a computer
dinosaur, so please bear with me !

I stupidly turned my PC off by pressing the button on the base unit. When
I
turned it on again I clicked on my name on the welcome screen as usual.
The
following message then came up:

"Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you on with the
default
profile for the system.
DETAIL - the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format"

I have no idea what this means ! All my favourites, background etc has
been
lost !

The other profile on the welcome screen works fine.

I use windows XP.

Any advice very gratefully received.

Your best bet is to use System Restore to return Windows to
the its condition before this incident.

 

[David Banks]

Thanks - how do I do that please ?
--
David

Your best bet is to use System Restore to return Windows to
the its condition before this incident.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks - how do I do that please ?

Simple: Click Start / Help, then look for help on
System Restore. The explanation there is much
better than anything I could offer.

 

[David Banks]

Many thanks
--
David

Simple: Click Start / Help, then look for help on
System Restore. The explanation there is much
better than anything I could offer.