I have a new employee logging onto my Domain on a Vista desktop. The Domain account was just created today. I had her logon to the computer and she is getting the following message "Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator." I have been through the web thoroughly...and every posting I can find discusses pulling .BAK entries out of the registry (none found)...or....entries with her Profile name (none found). Any ideas on how to solve this when there is NO aspects of the User Profile name anywhere on the computer or registry.....no .BAK entries in the registry Here are some ideas from the web followed by my comments 1. Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile. - Did this 2. Log on with another administrative account - I did this 3. Delete C:\Users\%username% - User name was not there 4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP - Errored out 5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make sure you pick your own profile. - Her profile was not there...No .BAK files either Any ideas on how to solve this

Hi, A temporary profile is issued each time that an error condition prevents the user's profile from loading. Temporary profiles are deleted at the end of each session, and changes made by the user to desktop settings and files are lost when the user logs off. A user profile consists of the following elements: 1.A registry hive. The registry hive is the file NTuser.dat. The hive is loaded by the system at user logon, and it is mapped to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key. The user's registry hive maintains the user's registry-based preferences and configuration. 2.A set of profile folders stored in the file system. User-profile files are stored in the Profiles directory, on a folder per-user basis. The user-profile folder is a container for applications and other system components to populate with sub-folders, and per-user data such as documents and configuration files. Windows Explorer uses the user-profile folders extensively for such items as the user's Desktop, Start Menu and My Documents folder. We can perform the following method to resolve such issue: 1. Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile. 2. Log on with another administrative account 3. Delete C:\Users\%username% 4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP 5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make sure you pick your own profile. 6. Restart once again. Good Luck. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi again, If the steps above did not resolve the issue, I will suspect this is the domain environment involved, it is suggested to create a new thread as http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverDS/threads . Your understanding is appreciated. Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.