[Fix] Window login as temporary profile

Sometimes Windows OS may not read your correct user profile properly, instead, load with temporary profile which will look completely different.  If you are not aware of temp profile or missed to see the pop-up message at bottom right side of the screen, then really you will be surprised to see completely different and new desktop without your files,folders,shortcut icons and any customized settings.This guide shows how to fix temporary profile issue on Windows.

Why Windows Loads with Temporary Profile?
Obviously, your profile (the files and folders located under C:\Users\user_name) is corrupted. There is another chance which is a delay in reading your profile files due to Antivirus scan or something else during boot up. Usually after typing your user name and password Windows tries to read and load your profile, if it gets corrupted or delay in reading, Windows will load with temp profile to give temporary access on computer.



How to Fix Windows Temp Issue on Workgroup and Domain Environment

Rename the temp profile registry and revert back the old registry settings for the correct profile.

Then, find out the temporary profile SID and rename the registry folder to .bak

How to know which is the correct profile SID?
You may check on ProfileImagePath binary data that allocated in the particular SID folder under ProfileList.

Next, log off and log in with your username and password. You will get a new profile with default icons and profile settings back.

IF you still login as Temporary profile, please follow the steps below to delete the corrupted profile:

• Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties.
• Click Change settings.
• In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.
• Under User Profiles, click Settings.
• In the User Profiles dialog box, select the profile that you want to delete, click Delete, and then click OK.
• Click Start , type regedit in the Start search box, and then press ENTER.
• Locate and then expand the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
• Right-click the SID that you want to remove, and then click Delete.
• Sign in to the computer and create a new profile.

Try to login again. Hope you get back correct profile =)

NOTE:

Please backup the data in the profile if you really need to delete away the profile by using the steps above.
Data such as:

• My Documents (Music, videos and downloads)
• Desktop
• Favorites
• Any outlook PST files

Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3571.microsoft-windows-user-profiles-service-event-1511.aspx
http://www.sysprobs.com/fix-temporary-profile-windows-7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947242
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Fix-a-corrupted-user-profile