Re: user profile corrupted, lost all my settings

From: Wab (wabonline_at_nospamhotmail.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:53:50 +0100

What I have generally found is that on of the system files is corrupted.

When this has occured in the past I have created a new account, dragged and
droped all the files from my old account into it then deleted the "faulty"
account.

Kind regards

Wab
"theory42" <theory42@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D08EB5E2-0FA4-4DD0-B32A-8E050D8378EC@microsoft.com...
> I'm having the same problem. except the last thing i did was to run a
virus
> and adaware scan, I quarintined some fiels and reg keys, when i started it
up
> and tried to log on, it also gave me the message.
> I've tried looking up some ways to fix it, but the two ways that i've
found,
> (i haven't tried either yet) are to:
> 1) make a new user account from the administrator account(only available
> through safe mode, I think), and transfer over all files in
> C:/Documents and Settings/[user_name_here]/
> over except for ntuser.dat; ntuser.ini; and ntuser.dat.log
> then delete the old account.
> 2) (not to sure on this one)delete 'ntuser.dat' or 'ntuser.ini', the web
> site i got that from wasn't sure. apperintly it will also leave you
without
> any desktop icons, but you will be able to log on.
> Like i said I haven't tried either of these yet, thought the first one
sure
> seems to be the way to go.
> What I really want to know is: is there a way to repair this through the
> registry? Any thoughts?
>
> "nsrbb5" wrote:
>
> > okay i came home last night to find my computer crashed,
> > blue screen. i hard restarted it and skipped checkdisk
> > (shoulda run it) and windows wouldn't load. so i
> > restarted and let checkdisk run. after running and fixing
> > several corrupted files, windows would now load. i log in
> > with my usual user profile (the only user profile on my
> > computer) and windows worked.
> >
> > this morning i kept getting a windows pop-up saying that
> > certain file were corrupted and i should run checkdisk.
> > so i went to command prompt and ran "chkdsk /f" and
> > restarted. after restart, checkdisk fixed some corrupted
> > files and windows loaded. at the login screen i typed in
> > my user (profile) name and password, and while loading
> > the profile i get the error:
> >
> > "windows cannot load your user profile, it may be
> > corrupted". so now i have to log in with this stupid
> > temporary profile which has NOTHING set up the way i like
> > it. my questions:
> >
> > 1) what the f happened (to the user profile)
> > 2) how can i fix the user profile? is there anyway to
> > repair my corrupted profile?
> > 3) the error tells me to "contact the administrator", but
> > the user profile is the administrator account, what can
> > the "administrator" do to fix this
> >
> > this has happened to me once before, with the same
> > computer, same OS a couple months ago. i couldn't find
> > out how to fix it, so i had to copy my files from
> > d:\documents and settings and e:\my documents and create
> > a new user profile. but NOW i can't delete my previous
> > profile, because it is the administrator's profile. which
> > led to me reinstalling windows, which i really don't have
> > time for right now. all i want is my stupid user profile
> > back and all my options set up so i can use my computer
> > properly!!!!
> >
> > i'm running a dual boot with XP pro and 98se. this error
> > only pertains to the XP pro install of windows. i have
> > SP1 installed but not SP2. please someone out there know
> > what i'm talking about and how to fix this stupid mess
> >
> >

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