Re: User Profile Data Not Found?

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Which settings are wiped out?

In the meantime:

How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

How to Copy or Remove a User Profile
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_logon.htm#usercopy

HOW TO: Create a Custom Default User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q305709

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

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"indigo791" <indigo791@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FAC5C25D-1208-403B-AD87-4B882DF1BF69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have always had only one user profile on my computer (not password
protected) as I am the only one who uses it. When I turned on the computer
the other day, it said my user profile data could not be found and it led me
to the desktop after several minutes basically as a guest login. All of my
settings were gone and I could not access any programs.

I created a new user profile and set it as my administrative profile, and
now I can see my files from my other profile but all of my settings have
basically been wiped clean and i'm starting from scratch. I cannot get my
firefox bookmarks to show up and I now have to open up every program once and
it thinks i'm a new user so I have to redo all of my settings.

I basically want to know first of all why this happened, and can I fix it
without just transferring all my date over to the new profile? I have run a
virus program (Kaspersky) but it didn't find anything. The last time I used
the computer before this happened, I did not download anything nor was I even
on the internet. Could this be a virus anyway? Any help would be appreciated!

.

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