While working with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system over the past few months I have noticed that sometimes when working with multiple profiles that they can sometimes get corrupted. The error I would receive says that “You are logged into a Temporary Profile.” This means that anything that user would do under that profile would get wiped immediately upon logging off. This problem seems to happen more frequently when it is a member of a domain. This will show you how to fix the profile error in Windows 7 without having to simply wipe the profile. This can come in very handy sometimes and has saved me hours of backing up and transferring profile data.

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Step #1

Restart your PC to release the locks on your profiles.

Step #2

Log on with another administrative account.

Step #3

Delete C:\Users\%username%

Step #4

Delete C:\Users\TEMP

Step #5

Delete the registry key matching your SID from

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”.

Check the value “ProfileImagePath” to make sure you pick your own profile.

Step #6

Restart once again and then you’re done!

Tags: Windows 7, Windows 7 Beta

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