User account not right

[Carl]

I have 5 user accounts on my Windows XP Home computer and they have all been
working fine until about a week ago. My sons account is now acting like it it
is a brand new account. He gets a USER ENVIRONMENT dialog box with the
following message..."Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible
cause of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local
profile..." The background screen went to a deafult background instead of the
picture he had up and none of his account connections are working. Any ideas
as to what file may be corrupt or what I might be able to do to get the
account working properly without deleting it? Thanks for any help you can
give.

 

[Malke]

I have 5 user accounts on my Windows XP Home computer and they have all
been working fine until about a week ago. My sons account is now acting
like it it is a brand new account. He gets a USER ENVIRONMENT dialog box
with the following message..."Windows cannot load the locally stored
profile. Possible cause of this error include insufficient security rights
or a corrupt local profile..." The background screen went to a deafult
background instead of the picture he had up and none of his account
connections are working. Any ideas as to what file may be corrupt or what
I might be able to do to get the account working properly without deleting
it? Thanks for any help you can give.

There is really nothing you can do to fix this. Create a new user account
for your son, copy his data over to it from the old account, make sure
everything is there, and then delete the old user account.

It never hurts to do a pro-active test of your hard drive at this point,
either. That way if it is starting to fail you'll have the time to replace
it easily. Download a diagnostic utility from the drive mftr.'s website,
burn to CD with third-party burning software (burn as an image, not as
data), boot with the media your created, and do a quick test.

Malke