Windows xp loading temporary profile

Ive seen this happen every so often in XP and Server 03, about half the time it is because quotas have been enabled but the user does not have a custom quota setup, and may be limited to a small default quota. Windows sees that the user profile exceeds the available space that user should have, and balks, loading a temporary profile. Other instances have related to profile corruption, hard drive corruption or hard drive imminent failure.

I've had XP Pro exhibit this behaviour on my own equipment. Couldn't figure it out or track down any underlying cause. This has happened twice - on each occasion the temp profiles happened before any warning of hard drive mortality. I just recently had this problem if it is happening after a new user was on the pc. Just restart the computer then log in. I agree with OM if it keeps occurring on one machine. Other stuff I've seen cause this; 1. Adware, spyware, viruses 3.

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Quick access. Search related threads. If you will log in to temporary profile again after a restart, you will have to resolve the problem with this tutorial. Log in to Windows, make sure that you have been logged to the temp profile b. Click on a start button, c. Type regedit, right click on the icon and select Run as administrator. We have to rename temporary profile without.

If a temporary profile is loaded again after a restart, then most likely cause is a corrupted user profile. In that case we have to create a new user profile. Please note that Outlook folder locations are different between Windows versions and Outlook versions. Also if you are using Microsoft Office in language other than English, name of the Signature folder is different. Usually Folder Signature is translated to whatever language you use.

Thank you very much, it finally worked. So many other sites are giving wrong information to delete the registry entry with. I could get rid of an old user profile that caused the creation of a temp profile by renaming both profiles to.

Then a completely new profile was created. You may have to set up the printer again, but it got things running again for us. Good luck. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Eric Feb 6, at UTC. ITFreak This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Half The World wrote: We ran into this when we had XP machines since transitioned to Win 7 - no issues of the like on that.

I haven't gotten any other reports and that's a good question.. I'll have him test now. Thanks again. LWBM This person is a verified professional. Jake B wrote:. Edit: Roaming profiles, and server '03 May want to look in a server upgrade. Windows 8 Server OS will be here soon, ya know?

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