Comments on: Windows 7 and the Dreaded Temp Profile http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/09/windows-7-and-the-dreaded-temp-profile/ A Christian technology chaos wrangler and his thoughts Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:02:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Desd http://blog.tech4him.com/2009/09/windows-7-and-the-dreaded-temp-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Desd Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:45:21 +0000 http://blog.tech4him.com/?p=756#comment-109 I overcame the problem of the temporary profile by creating a new administrator account (called Harry) without password. Rebooted and selected the new account and it was logged in -no temporary profile. I then deleted the old account. I could do this as this was a new install of Win 7, so I had no files or settings to lose. What seems to have been missing was the ProfileImagePath data of the user account. In this case the value data was, C:\Users\Harry and found at the registry editor address of, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT]CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-1535423096-1041729342-1537232185-1001 This S-1-5-21 number may not be constant on all machines, but it should be obvious which one it is as the other entries do not have the long string of numbers after the S-1-5 number. Other items like the Sid value name were also added by creating the new account. Something obviously went wrong during the boot process corrupting the profile information ans this forced the temporary profile to appear. Further investigation is needed. I overcame the problem of the temporary profile by creating a new administrator account (called Harry) without password. Rebooted and selected the new account and it was logged in -no temporary profile.

I then deleted the old account. I could do this as this was a new install of Win 7, so I had no files or settings to lose.

What seems to have been missing was the ProfileImagePath data of the user account. In this case the value data was, C:\Users\Harry
and found at the registry editor address of,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT]CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-1535423096-1041729342-1537232185-1001

This S-1-5-21 number may not be constant on all machines, but it should be obvious which one it is as the other entries do not have the long string of numbers after the S-1-5 number.

Other items like the Sid value name were also added by creating the new account.
Something obviously went wrong during the boot process corrupting the profile information ans this forced the temporary profile to appear.
Further investigation is needed.

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