User Environment Error

[Kenny McClure]

Hello, I have a homemade computer with a 1.3 GHz (AMD) processor , 256 mb
RAM and running Win XP Professional. I have 3 users registered on it
besides the administrator. "ME", "WIFE" and "KID". ME & KID seldom have
any problems. However, WIFE's profile is constantly coming up missing. I
can't tell you it happens specifically when I do "this" or "that". It just
seems to happen when it wants to. Sometimes off a fresh boot, sometimes
when changing profiles. A message comes up that says, "USER ENVIRONMENT:
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary
profile. Changes you make....." then it disappeared. It logs on like its
the first logon. I can reboot and the "wife" profile will be back. A few
other things of note: ME & Wife are administrators, kid has limited rights.
Something else odd. When I open windows explorer, in the file tree I can
see my documents, kids documents, and shared documents but not wife's
documents. They're there, under documents & settings / wife / my documents
but they don't come up under the main tree like the others. Anyway, can
anyone tell me why this happens and how to stop it? Thanks,
Kenny

 

[S.Sengupta]

"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

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Kenny McClure]

Thank you for the reply. Are "we can't load your profile because we can't
find it" and "we can't load your profile because it's broke" synonymous
messages then? I didn't see that in the KB article.

Kenny

"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

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Hello, I have a homemade computer with a 1.3 GHz (AMD) processor , 256
mb RAM and running Win XP Professional. I have 3 users registered on it
besides the administrator. "ME", "WIFE" and "KID". ME & KID seldom have
any problems. However, WIFE's profile is constantly coming up missing.
I can't tell you it happens specifically when I do "this" or "that". It
just seems to happen when it wants to. Sometimes off a fresh boot,
sometimes when changing profiles. A message comes up that says, "USER
ENVIRONMENT: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on
with a temporary profile. Changes you make....." then it disappeared.
It logs on like its the first logon. I can reboot and the "wife" profile
will be back. A few other things of note: ME & Wife are administrators,
kid has limited rights. Something else odd. When I open windows
explorer, in the file tree I can see my documents, kids documents, and
shared documents but not wife's documents. They're there, under
documents & settings / wife / my documents but they don't come up under
the main tree like the others. Anyway, can anyone tell me why this
happens and how to stop it? Thanks,
Kenny

 

[S.Sengupta]

You have to create a new user profile.
see:-http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151/

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Thank you for the reply. Are "we can't load your profile because we can't
find it" and "we can't load your profile because it's broke" synonymous
messages then? I didn't see that in the KB article.

Kenny

"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

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]


Kenny McClure wrote:

Hello, I have a homemade computer with a 1.3 GHz (AMD) processor , 256
mb RAM and running Win XP Professional. I have 3 users registered on it
besides the administrator. "ME", "WIFE" and "KID". ME & KID seldom have
any problems. However, WIFE's profile is constantly coming up missing.
I can't tell you it happens specifically when I do "this" or "that". It
just seems to happen when it wants to. Sometimes off a fresh boot,
sometimes when changing profiles. A message comes up that says, "USER
ENVIRONMENT: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on
with a temporary profile. Changes you make....." then it disappeared.
It logs on like its the first logon. I can reboot and the "wife" profile
will be back. A few other things of note: ME & Wife are administrators,
kid has limited rights. Something else odd. When I open windows
explorer, in the file tree I can see my documents, kids documents, and
shared documents but not wife's documents. They're there, under
documents & settings / wife / my documents but they don't come up under
the main tree like the others. Anyway, can anyone tell me why this
happens and how to stop it? Thanks,
Kenny