Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago.

Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile was
not loaded correctly. 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 your administrator"

Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support person, who was
unable to help me - he said he would research it and call me tomorrow (I
think it may have been the end of his shift!)

Everthing I do to on the computer is basically lost after it's shut down - i
lost all the music and data files that I had loaded on. I'm not very
technical, so if anyone has a solution (that I can understand), i would be
most appreciative. The machine appears to be amazingly fast and I am dying to
get going on it.
Thanks in advance

Hi,

Create a new profile for yourself in the control panel/Users and log into
it. Chances are good that the default profile is corrupt and you will not be
able to recover it. If you continue to use the temporary one, you will
continue to lose any settings and preferences you create.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"concork" wrote in message
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Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago.

Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile
was
not loaded correctly. 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 your administrator"

Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support person, who was
unable to help me - he said he would research it and call me tomorrow (I
think it may have been the end of his shift!)

Everthing I do to on the computer is basically lost after it's shut down -
i
lost all the music and data files that I had loaded on. I'm not very
technical, so if anyone has a solution (that I can understand), i would be
most appreciative. The machine appears to be amazingly fast and I am dying
to
get going on it.
Thanks in advance

Thanks Rick - on my third call to Dell they helped me do this, but not before
I had to resintall Vista on my machine, which of course deleted other
software that i now have to reinstall. However, I'm back in business, so
thanks!

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

Create a new profile for yourself in the control panel/Users and log into
it. Chances are good that the default profile is corrupt and you will not be
able to recover it. If you continue to use the temporary one, you will
continue to lose any settings and preferences you create.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"concork" wrote in message
...
Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago.

Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile
was
not loaded correctly. 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 your administrator"

Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support person, who was
unable to help me - he said he would research it and call me tomorrow (I
think it may have been the end of his shift!)

Everthing I do to on the computer is basically lost after it's shut down -
i
lost all the music and data files that I had loaded on. I'm not very
technical, so if anyone has a solution (that I can understand), i would be
most appreciative. The machine appears to be amazingly fast and I am dying
to
get going on it.
Thanks in advance

I'm having the same issue. The complication for me is that I'm logging onto
a domain, so I can't just come up with a differently named profile.
--
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Ron B.
mrbiggs.net


"concork" wrote:

Thanks Rick - on my third call to Dell they helped me do this, but not before
I had to resintall Vista on my machine, which of course deleted other
software that i now have to reinstall. However, I'm back in business, so
thanks!

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

Create a new profile for yourself in the control panel/Users and log into
it. Chances are good that the default profile is corrupt and you will not be
able to recover it. If you continue to use the temporary one, you will
continue to lose any settings and preferences you create.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"concork" wrote in message
...
Bought a brand new Dell Dimension 9200 a few days ago.

Everytime I start the computer I get the following message "User profile
was
not loaded correctly. 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 your administrator"

Today I spent two hours on the phone with a Dell support person, who was
unable to help me - he said he would research it and call me tomorrow (I
think it may have been the end of his shift!)

Everthing I do to on the computer is basically lost after it's shut down -
i
lost all the music and data files that I had loaded on. I'm not very
technical, so if anyone has a solution (that I can understand), i would be
most appreciative. The machine appears to be amazingly fast and I am dying
to
get going on it.
Thanks in advance

Same issue here with my domain account that can't log on properly.

I've created other accounts in the domain and they all work fine, but my own
old account cannot load my profile. I get a warning about the temporary
profile being loaded and eventid 1515 and 1511 are logged in the application
log.

I've tried deleting my old profile from C:\Users but it still won't work. I
end up with the C:\Users\TEMP profile.


As this is a domain account (not using roaming profile from the network) I
can't carry out any account modifications on my PC that would help. I'd like
to start using my PC effectivly again, but it's hard when all settings are
cleared everytime I restart...

//Vista Business 64-bit (eng)

"Samir" wrote:

Same issue here with my domain account that can't log on properly.

I've created other accounts in the domain and they all work fine, but my own
old account cannot load my profile. I get a warning about the temporary
profile being loaded and eventid 1515 and 1511 are logged in the application
log.

I've tried deleting my old profile from C:\Users but it still won't work. I
end up with the C:\Users\TEMP profile.


As this is a domain account (not using roaming profile from the network) I
can't carry out any account modifications on my PC that would help. I'd like
to start using my PC effectivly again, but it's hard when all settings are
cleared everytime I restart...

//Vista Business 64-bit (eng)


My problem was solved using this technique:
1. Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile.
2. Log on with another administrative account
3. Delete C:\Users\%username%
4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP
5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make
sure you pick your own profile.
6. Restart once again and then you're done!

Hope this helps someone using domain accounts instead of local ones!

Thanks Samir.. that did it for me


--
philapcrepair

Something that worked for me without deleting the profile.
1. Run chkdsk /r
2. Login to an admin account that works properly
3. Go to c:\users and delete all the temporary users
4. Restart
5. Login to your profile

Good luck!

I'm in desperate need of help. I've been trying to work on this for days
and have just recently starting getting somewhere thanks to this thread.

I inherited a 2nd hand laptop from my Mother's work. I erased ex-user's
name and I added a User profile under my name as Administrator. However,
Firefox starts giving me an error message about profile folder
directory. I managed to resolve that.

Once I resolved said problem above I started getting the "User Profile
Not Loading Properly" error message. I solved that, thanks to the steps
on this thread. So it seems that all is good, however, my wifi
connection started saying that I am connected to my wireless router but
the connectivity is limited. I'm unable to disconnect and reconnect even
when I've gone closer to the router. So I've got to restart. When that
happens and I'm downloading something using bittorrent any downloading
work in progress and even previously completed downloads disappear! So
I'm thinking that the whole "User Profile Not Loading Properly" isn't
completely fixed, after all if it is shouldn't it be saving previous
work?

Prior to this problem Bittorrent would automatically recommence where
it stopped downloading, but now whilst it has stopped asking me to
install Bittorrent at each restart it's still not saving what I'm
downloading.

I've followed the steps on this thread and the have gone to the
Registry and deleted all user names but the two I left there which is
mine and my Hubby's name. Hubby's being Administrator and we are going
to just use the Standard one. And there are three others named "system
profile", "system" and something else. I didn't think I should erase
those.

Any advise would be much appreciated.


--
Angelz

Angelz wrote:


I'm in desperate need of help. I've been trying to work on this for days
and have just recently starting getting somewhere thanks to this thread.

I inherited a 2nd hand laptop from my Mother's work. I erased ex-user's
name and I added a User profile under my name as Administrator. However,
Firefox starts giving me an error message about profile folder
directory. I managed to resolve that.

Once I resolved said problem above I started getting the "User Profile
Not Loading Properly" error message. I solved that, thanks to the steps
on this thread. So it seems that all is good, however, my wifi
connection started saying that I am connected to my wireless router but
the connectivity is limited. I'm unable to disconnect and reconnect even
when I've gone closer to the router. So I've got to restart. When that
happens and I'm downloading something using bittorrent any downloading
work in progress and even previously completed downloads disappear! So
I'm thinking that the whole "User Profile Not Loading Properly" isn't
completely fixed, after all if it is shouldn't it be saving previous
work?

Prior to this problem Bittorrent would automatically recommence where
it stopped downloading, but now whilst it has stopped asking me to
install Bittorrent at each restart it's still not saving what I'm
downloading.

I've followed the steps on this thread and the have gone to the
Registry and deleted all user names but the two I left there which is
mine and my Hubby's name. Hubby's being Administrator and we are going
to just use the Standard one. And there are three others named "system
profile", "system" and something else. I didn't think I should erase
those.

Any advise would be much appreciated.


You won't like it, but best practice on a used computer - obtained from
*anywhere* - is to clean install Windows. On a laptop, this usually means
restoring to factory condition.

Since this is a laptop, it may have a restore image on a partition. If there
were physical recovery disks, you should have received a set. If you
didn't, contact the laptop mftr.'s tech support and order a set. This is
usually very inexpensive.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ