Windows xp keeps creating temp profiles

Anyone come across this issue before? Share Flag. All Answers. Collapse -. Do you use Disk Quotas. I also have the same issue. Impending hard drive failure Windows XP Pro keeps creating users' a temporary profile. Back to Software Forum. Start or search. Start New Discussion. Create a new discussion If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

Track this discussion and email me when there are updates. Reset Post Submit Post. Related Discussions. I could get rid of an old user profile that caused the creation of a temp profile by renaming both profiles to. Then a completely new profile was created. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Comments Thank you very much, it finally worked. Hi Erik thanks for the useful article. Kind regards, Nikolaus. The regedit with the backup rename did the trick and fixed my machine. Thanks for the Info. Thank you, thank you!!

The backup rename worked on Windows Hello Sir, This article was a big help to me and helped to resolve my issue. Much appreciated! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. The system then logs you in with a temporary roaming profile we do not use roaming profiles.

When you log off the profile is deleted, or it leaves a temporary profile called temp. When logged in you cannot change it to a local profile. The machine has been using 4 other domain accounts without issues and this account is used on other machines without issue. Could someone please offer some assistance? Robert Wiggins. Sounds similar to something I've met. Is this where it says words to the extent that user profile cannot be found and does a countdown.

If so I've met it in a couple of guises, in the first I had a dual NIC workstation unorthodox but necessary to access a domain and a workgroup at same time , in the second it occured after moving a workstation from one domain SBS to another SBS For the former the problem went away after giving up on the dual NIC idea, in the second we went through adding and removing from domain, and resetting the computer account on the domain.

Don't recall exactly but there seemed to be a problem with authentication at the heart of it. The MCSE who was aiding picked up that the network drivers were rather old and that there might have been mismatch between password complex naturally typed and what was passed - a keyboard map thing being in different places on US and UK boards.

On the SBS server, can you open an administrative command prompt and type: Replace John Smith with the problem users login name dsquery user -name "John Smith" dsget user -profile.

Most of the time, the problem with profiles not loading are because a program didn't release all of the handles when the program closed. So a temporary profile is used. Install UPHClean on the computer as it will allow the handles to be released. You can make a system restore point before you install just in case you want to go back to before you installed it. Meanwhile, you can also try copying a working user profile to the default user profile under control panel, delete the profiles that have problems and see what happens.

Sorry for the delay. I did typed in what you asked dsquery user -name "John Smith" dsget user -profile and here is what I got. Go to above location, you can find folders under this profile list, expand each folder Each folders will be for each users of the computer , you can see the profile having issue, you have to delete that folder. Restart the machine then, remove from domain and join back to the domain, the issue will be fixed.

I wanted to revisit theis issue as it is happened again and I thought maybe someone will have more info. I had a machine that was part of the network and the profile got corrupted and I want to delete it and creat a new one with the same name.

I am not able to do this because of this the same issue I had that is listed in this thread. If you cannot see the whole thread please let me know. I don't want to have to wipe this machine and start from scratch but I have done all the things suggested in this thread as well as anything I can think of on my own.

I have deleted the profile, the local user account, the network account, disjoined the domain and rejoined. No matter what I do when I try to login with this user account it will only allow me to create a temporary profile.

As the thread indiactes I have had this issue with other machines and other accounts so it is not this user account or this machine. The olny way around it has been to give a person that needs to login to more than one machine is to give them a new account name.

That has worked in the past to get around this issue but it is a pain in the butt. Now I have this issue which creating a new account is not going to be the solution. I need to use this account name. Can anyone offer some solution. Thanks for the help.