when the vista basic computer starts it says temporary profile

[Guest]

When I turn my computer on it says you have logged on to a temporary profile
and says not to change any settings because the will not stay when the
computer is restarted. It also says to contact your system administrator,
which is really stupid because who is my system administrator. All my
settings and files arent available to me everything has pretty much went to
default and will go to default whenever I restart. Even my favorites arent on
the computer. Also when the computer is turning on it says windows is
preparing you desktop, takes forever. Please any help on this would be
appreciated, I would just like to get my computer back to normal.

 

[Guest]

hi there,
what I had to do, and I was working on a domain account, was log on to the
Pc as administrator - go into the registry - look for the 'corrupt' username
and remove the relevant keys where the username was mentioned. logged back

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

T

You should have mentioned that this was on a domain in your first message.


Se the following article to see if this addresses the problem.

A temporary user profile is created every time that you log on to a Windows
Vista-based computer that is connected to a domain:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940453

 

[Guest]

Well I recently bought the computer with windows vista already on it. One day
it just locked up and I turned it back on and it logged me into a temporary
profile. All I want to do is get back into my original profile. I have made a
new one but still am unable to get it to the old one. What do you mean by a
domain?