when the vista basic computer starts it says temporary pro..

camster · External Since: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 1

When I turn my computer on it says you have logged on to a temporary profile
and says not to change any settings because the will not stay when the
computer is restarted. It also says to contact your system administrator,
which is really stupid because who is my system administrator. All my
settings and files arent available to me everything has pretty much went to
default and will go to default whenever I restart. Even my favorites arent on
the computer. Also when the computer is turning on it says windows is
preparing you desktop, takes forever. Please any help on this would be
appreciated, I would just like to get my computer back to normal.

T · External Since: Mar 24, 2007 Posts: 10

hi there,
what I had to do, and I was working on a domain account, was log on to the
Pc as administrator - go into the registry - look for the 'corrupt' username
and remove the relevant keys where the username was mentioned. logged back
on as the user and all was fine..there has to be a simplier way of correcting
this but did not find it..

"camster" wrote:

> When I turn my computer on it says you have logged on to a temporary profile
> and says not to change any settings because the will not stay when the
> computer is restarted. It also says to contact your system administrator,
> which is really stupid because who is my system administrator. All my
> settings and files arent available to me everything has pretty much went to
> default and will go to default whenever I restart. Even my favorites arent on
> the computer. Also when the computer is turning on it says windows is
> preparing you desktop, takes forever. Please any help on this would be
> appreciated, I would just like to get my computer back to normal.

Ronnie Vernon MVP · External Since: Jan 09, 2007 Posts: 1325

T

You should have mentioned that this was on a domain in your first message.
Smile

Se the following article to see if this addresses the problem.

A temporary user profile is created every time that you log on to a Windows
Vista-based computer that is connected to a domain:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940453

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

"T" <T.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7873A8FC-BA58-4665-8BD7-F20DCA0FB9EC@microsoft.com...
> hi there,
> what I had to do, and I was working on a domain account, was log on to the
> Pc as administrator - go into the registry - look for the 'corrupt'
> username
> and remove the relevant keys where the username was mentioned. logged
> back
> on as the user and all was fine..there has to be a simplier way of
> correcting
> this but did not find it..
>
>
> "camster" wrote:
>
>> When I turn my computer on it says you have logged on to a temporary
>> profile
>> and says not to change any settings because the will not stay when the
>> computer is restarted. It also says to contact your system administrator,
>> which is really stupid because who is my system administrator. All my
>> settings and files arent available to me everything has pretty much went
>> to
>> default and will go to default whenever I restart. Even my favorites
>> arent on
>> the computer. Also when the computer is turning on it says windows is
>> preparing you desktop, takes forever. Please any help on this would be
>> appreciated, I would just like to get my computer back to normal.

Olly · Joined: Nov 28, 2007 Posts: 1

my friend is having this same problem but she isn't part of a domain i think... she logs in and its under a "temporary username" and she can't save anything, we're in college so it's kinda important we're able to do that so what can i do to fix her problem?

chriztine83 · Joined: Jan 08, 2008 Posts: 1

Help i have the same prob its driving me crazy i dont have a domain account i have one main account which is the main adminstrator but it wont let me log on to that acc & logs me in to a tempory account, i have tried to take my computer back intime & restore everything but nothings worked please help as im having to reinstall the internet everytime i turn it on. Thank you Smile

Infernal_Hlao · Joined: Feb 09, 2008 Posts: 2

Trying checking what groups your username is a member of. If you are a member of the guest group in Vista, it will return Vista to default settings everytime you log off.