Windows 7 Temporary Profile

Windows 7 Temporary Profile Issue Fix

Why Windows 7 Loads with Temporary Profile?

Obviously, your profile (the files and folders located under C:\Users\user_name) is corrupted. There is another chance which is a delay in reading your profile files due to Antivirus scan or something else during boot up. Usually after typing your user name and password Windows tries to read and load your profile, if it gets corrupted or delay in reading, Windows will load with temp profile to give temporary access on computer.

How to Fix Windows 7 Temp Issue on Workgroup and Domain Environment
 * 1) Before we do anything, restart the computer 2 or 3 times to see whether it’s going back to your old correct profile. Go to next step if this doesn’t work.
 * 2) Log in as an administrative user and rename the users locally stored profile to %username%.old then continue to the next step.
 * 3) To resolve this issue we are going to delete the registry entries for the problem profile so that Windows is forced to download an uncorrupted version.
 * 4) Log in with an administrative profile.
 * 5) Start registry editor by typing regedit in find box of Windows 7.
 * 6) Navigate the following location.
 * [[File:Regedit_for_win7temp_profile_1.png]]
 * 1) You will see profile keys similar to the ones shown in the image linked.
 * Regedit_for_win7temp_profile_2.jpg
 * 1) Find the key that holds the information of the user experiencing the issue and delete it.
 * Regedit_for_win7temp_profile_3.jpg
 * 1) Restart the computer and log on using the credentials of the user experiencing the issue. If successful the user will be logged back in using their roaming profile.
 * 2) If there is user data stored locally which was not a part of the roaming profile ensure that the data is moved back into the correct areas before performing the final hand over to the user.

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