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26-Nov-2007, 10:42 PM #1
Smile the administrator has been logged on to a temporary profile
umm.. i'm kinda having a problem..my computer logged me on a temporary profile, even though i'm the administrator .
and every time i open it a memo would pop up on the lower right of the screen that tells me "you have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact the administrator."
thanks......
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26-Nov-2007, 11:05 PM #2
I was able to fix this problem on my copy of Vista after deleting c:\users\username.

I had to go into the registry...

hkey_Local_machine\software\microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Locate the key(S-1-5...) that had the old profile(C:\users\username) and delete it. Reboot.

Not sure if I would delete the key with the administrator profile.
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26-Nov-2007, 11:26 PM #3
Your Administrator profile is corrupted and unusable. Try System Restore.
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27-Nov-2007, 12:48 AM #4
kimsland...how should i know whether that's the old user..may problem right now is that i have 4 users, and what appeared in my profile list are 5 with the last one having .bak
here are the 5 users:

s-1-5-18
s-1-5-19
s-1-5-20
s-1-5-21-2755968457-2520077130-3359122444-1000
s-1-5-21-2755968457-2520077130-3359122444-1000.bak
thanks a lot...... :-) :-)
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27-Nov-2007, 12:53 AM #5
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Originally Posted by kimsland
I was able to fix this problem on my copy of Vista after deleting c:\users\username.

I had to go into the registry...

hkey_Local_machine\software\microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Locate the key(S-1-5...) that had the old profile(C:\users\username) and delete it. Reboot.

Not sure if I would delete the key with the administrator profile.
kimsland...how should i know whether that's the old user..may problem right now is that i have 4 users, and what appeared in my profile list are 5 with the last one having .bak
here are the 5 users:

s-1-5-18
s-1-5-19
s-1-5-20
s-1-5-21-2755968457-2520077130-3359122444-1000
s-1-5-21-2755968457-2520077130-3359122444-1000.bak
thanks a lot......
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27-Nov-2007, 10:14 AM #6
help please.............
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27-Nov-2007, 05:31 PM #7
Right click on each s-1-5-** and export (save backup) to your desktop
(this is to go back if needed)

Right click on each s-1-5-** and delete OK

Restart

Otherwise go to safe mode and reserect rhe registries
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