Vista - User Profile Lost - Vista Ultimate

After checkdisk ran on startup I now find whenever I start up I am given a
Temporary User Profile. This machine is not on a domain, no roaming profile
applied and I have made no user permission changes (one or all of these seem
to be incorrectly assumed by every reference I find on the net).

I can get to User Profiles in Control Panel where I have entered my Home
Folder > Local path details but don't know what value to put in User ProfileDoes anyone know where this is (or should be) located?

TIA,

Rob

Hi,

The is usually blank. If your profile is corrupted, you will need to create
a new one as they are generally not recoverable. Once created, you can take
ownership of and copy over data from your old profile before deleting it.

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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

"RobDee" <robd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for confirmation Rick. I had another machine with Ultimate on in the
same room and it finally occurred to me (I'd had a late night) to compare
settings. You are of course correct, the registry holds the profile settings
(via the NTUSER.dat file).

I set up a new user, migrated my stuff across and have luckily had very few
problems with progs running as I want them to. Office needed a new user
confirmation and toolbars etc needed redoing.
I was surprised in my net search how common this appears to be with Vista -
lots of people tearing their hair out over it.

Rob

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