Restarted my computer today and it went into Windows Checkdisk and repair, I don't believe I prompted that. I let it run cause it was prolly never done.
I log in now and only get a temporary user notice, I can't get to my homepage or anything. It only recommends logging out and back in... tried that ten times, no difference. It acts like this is a new computer w/ nothing saved from before and it prompts me to 'get to know your new computer'. I did a system restore to about a week ago but that failed. Did a AVG security scan but nothing found.
Any idears?
Dell XPS8500 w/ Windows 10
What OS ? I just had this happen. You user configuration in the registry has been corrupted. This is a HD issue. Probibly a sector has gone bad. Or at a min been corrupted. You can go in to The registry and you will have to delete the new configuration for your user and re name the backup and try re booting. This works fifty percent of the time.
The real answer is backup everything NOW.
I need more info on the OS before I go further.
The temporary profile thing usually happens when the drive is full. I see this pretty often on virtual machines at work.
Do this.
- Go to C:\users\ and look for your profile name, e.g. "fasted58"
- Rename profile to "fasted58 OLD"
- Click on start/windows button and type "Control Panel" then open it.
- At the top click to change the view from Catagories to Large icons
- Open "System Properties", click on advaced system settings, then select user profiles from the options.
- if your profile is listed there, delete it.
- Close back to the desktop.
- Click on start/windows button. Type regedit and open the program
- Go to HKey_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- Click on the folders till you find the one that says ProfileImagePath C:\users\fasted58
- Delete that folder.
- also find the one that says Temp in the profileimagepath and delete it too.
- Reboot. Sign In and wait for it to create a new profile for you.
- Copy any files you need from the "fasted58 old" folder under c:\users to the new "fasted58" folder.
That should fix it..
I would also suggest running checkdisk again and maybe even sfc scannow.
I did all that and eventually the issue came back. The answer was to wipe the HD clean and do a hard reformat. I also deleted a partishion and made it all one disk while I was there as it was only a half gig drive. Another issue was that the drive was not NTFS. Don't know why but the newly formatted single partition is. After all this I upgraded to win10 and the computer. (ASUS laptop) has been fine. It is one of the first i7 64bit machines.
