Fix Temporary Profile Error in Windows 7
If you’re having problems with corrupted problems and you get the error “logged into temporary profile”, here’s a small tutorial how to fix this issue in Windows 7:
When you’re working with multiple profiles in Windows 7 it can happen that you get the error “You are logged into a Temporary Profile.”
So, whatever you do on a temporary profile will simply get deleted
Fixing Profile Errors in Windows 7
So, let’s see how to fix the profile error in Windows 7
Prerequisites
- Restart your PC to release the locks on your profiles.
- Log on with another administrative account.
- Delete or move C:\Users\%username%
- Delete or move C:\Users\TEMP
(1) Go to Start->Run->Type “regedit”
(3) Rename the registry key matching your SID from
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”.
The correct profile has the extension .bak, remove the .bak (which is only possible after you rename the current temporary profile)
Confused? Check the value “ProfileImagePath” of each account to make sure you pick your own profile.
(3) Restart and you should have fixed your temporary profile error.
The profile errors should now be gone. If you’re still having problems, make sure to post a comment below and we will get back to you asap.
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Written by oliversk Saturday, May 7th, 2011
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what if instead of renaming the registry key, i deleted it?
I only have one user and have never encountered this before. I started up my laptop like always and it logged me onto a temporary Profile. I was highly annoyed as I had yet to back up computer and so lost all my data,my bookmarks, certain programs on my desktop, my personal settings were back to default. I figured it would go back to normal if I restarted my computer.
Unfortunately it didn’t, the computer just logged back onto a temporary profile.
I don’t know much about computers and don’t really want to lose any of my old data.
How would I fix this and would I be able to get all my old setting back?
for some reason the fix does not work. does the registry need to be saved? When I close out it does not ask if I want to save changes. after the reboot i log back in as the problem user and the message comes back. When I log back in as myself (network admin) and go back into the registry, the bak for the problem user has returned.
please help!
Thanks!
I wasn’t clear on the “c\users\%username%”, so I substituted my username for the “%username%”. I hope that is what was intended. In two separate attempts I both renamed and deleted the register key designating the temporary profile. I renamed the register key designating my true profile by eliminating the .bak file extension. I renamed both the “my username” folder and the TEMP folder in the users folder on the c drive, and the data field of the “ProfileImagePath” attribute is c:\users\”my username”. The type field is “REG_EXPAND_SZ”, differing from the type field of all the other attributes as well as from your example. The .bak file extension is recreated along with another duplicate register key, and the TEMP folder is recreated in the users folder, although the “my username” folder is not recreated.
Could it possibly be that the “REG_EXPAND_SZ” the problem?