Re: Cannot Load Local Profile
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 01/19/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:56:02 -0700
Greetings --
Sometimes user profiles become corrupted by malware or an
unexpected and "ungraceful" shutdown, such as one caused by a power
outage. This is not typically a result of the Blaster worm, but there
may be a new variant that causes such corruption. Once corrupted,
though, a user profile is very likely to be irreparable.
Under these circumstances, your easiest course of action might
very well be to create a new user and profile and copy the files from
the old one to the new. To do so:
1) Restart the computer and log in using the built-in Administrator
account. (By design, the only way to log into the Administrator
account of WinXP Home is to reboot into Safe Mode. For WinXP Pro,
pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL twice at the Welcome Screen will produce the
standard login dialog box.)
2) Click Start > Run and enter "control userpasswords2" followed by
clicking "OK."
3) Click "Add....", creating a new username and filling in the
desired information, and then click "Next >"
4) Set the password as desired and click "Next >"
5) Select the desired privilege access level for the new user account
and click "Finish."
Please see the following Knowledge Base article for an alternate
method and more information:
HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783
6) Once the new account has been created, follow the instructions in
the following Knowledge Base article to copy data from the corrupted
profile to the new one:
How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151
7) Once you've got the new user account working as desired and all of
the data files transferred to the new account, it would be a good to
remove the corrupt user account and profile. Simply follow Steps 1
through 5 above, making the obvious alteration to delete the corrupt
account.
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Felicia" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:084701c3deb3$cd518590$a601280a@phx.gbl... > Hello all you brilliant techies. xoxox I am a Windows XP > user and I am hoping that you can offer some advice for > the following error message I have received for the past > three days when I boot up my computer: (User > Environment: "Windows cannot load the locally stored > profile. Possible causes of this error include > insufficient security rights or a corrupt local > profile..") My computer then puts me in a temporary > profile where any changes that I make are lost when I log > off. How do I get back to my local profile? Any advice > you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks so much!! > > P.S. I just recently discovered that the Blaster Virus > had resurfaced on my computer so I was wondering if this > could be the cause of the problem. (I did the patch & > worm removal process again for the second time).
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