Re: Corrupt User Profile/Issues Creating A New User Profile

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:09:36 -0700

Thanks for the tips. I'll be sure to try them ASAP.

And to Hilary: For some reason, when I booted into the
admin account in safe mode, I couldn't find the user
account creator! It wasn't in my control panel. Is it
somewhere else?
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Maxy,
>
>Logon to another account with admin privilege and run
System Restore.
>Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore
the user
>hives.
>
>Or...
>
>Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy
ntuser.dat from
>%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user
id]". Now do a system
>restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption
message began to
>appear.
>
>Or...
>
>Relocate NTUserdat
>
>Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you
want to change and
>then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that
you want to use.
>You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.
>
>Corrupt Hive
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm
>
>How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545
>
>
>--
>All the Best,
>Kelly
>
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>2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>
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>
>"Maxy" <nimberlane@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:399801c47212$629b28d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello. Recently, my computer froze up, so I was forced to
>> shut it down. When I started it back up, I got to the
>> Welcome screen of Windows XP Home Edition, when a notice
>> popped up telling me my user profile was corrupted. I also
>> get logged onto a temporary profile that clears itself each
>> time I shutdown, throwing out any changes I make. I checked
>> the Microsoft help file for this on the website, and I
>> found I would have to create a new profile AND copy all of
>> my information from my old one to it if I wanted to keep
>> everything. The problem is, when I go to create a new
>> profile, the user profile folder is blank/white. The only
>> thing that shows is the back, forward, and home buttons at
>> the top.
>>
>> What should I do? Is there a way in the command prompt that
>> I could create a new profile?
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