Vista - User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile

I am currently have this issue and intend to follow the solution provided here and appreciate your help. I just want to say this should be required reading for anyone contemplating buying a windows machine, think again. I never make this mistake again.

Hi JFRYE5, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm sorry to hear that you have gotten this error. I hope that you will be able to get it resolved quickly and be able to have a better experience with Vista.

Shawn

Thanks it worked but when I made a new account in my computer it started to go slower then usually. How do i get it back to normal?

You're welcome Athrun, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Not sure why it would be running slower just because of that. Have you already deleted the old account?

You might also run a full antivirus and spyware scan to make sure that your computer is clean. These can cause your computer to slow down for no apparent reason.

Afterwards, thes items here should be able to help increase your computer's performance.

Speed Up the Performance of Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn - is there any way to recover files that were accidentally placed in a temporary user account?

thanks

Mondo

Hi Mondo, and welcome to Vista Forums.

If you mean in the user folders for that temporary account, then you can look to see if there is still a C:\Users\(temp user name) folder still there that may still have them in it.

Hope it is for you,
Shawn

Well it was c:\user\temp so no nothing is there - there were some serious photos there. I think I will have to try some file recovery software. I'm annoyed (with Vista) as I never got the warning message or if I did I missed it (I was logging on with a fingerprint scanner and probably didn't have my glasses on)

This is a very poorly implemented feature of Vista - it should log you on to a permanent guest account or something rather than a temporary account.

Have the registry problem that it has forgotten who I am or cannot access my profile. Try to follow the recovery posted by brink but have no profilelist or .bak file per step 2, 5.
What can I doe?

Hi Bell, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You could do a System Restore from boot (Method Two in link below) using a restore point dated before this problem to try and fix it.

System Restore - How to

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink

here this goes


my name was spelled wrong

i had 2 or 3 folders with my name on them in explore

i changed my name in user account and

then i proceed to to move and or delelte files in explore

now everytime i reboot it states "temp logged on ...."

i read your tutorial on this BUT:



the name is what i wanted it to be in regedit

where it shows .bak

but not in the one before it

it shows temp.njnite-pc

what should i do delete s 1 5 .bak

and change the other s 1 5

any help would be greatfullllllllll

a little screwed on my part again