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Temporary Profile on Windows 7

I have a WIn 7 Pro 64 bit machine that can login to the domain, but it keeps getting a tempoary profile, no matter what user logs on.  None of the users aremembers of any guest gruop.  Any ideas??
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1.    Click Start, type compmgmt.msc in the Start Search box and press Enter.

2.    In the Computer Management window, expand System Tools\Local Users and Groups, and click Users

3.    In the right pane, double-click the account has encountered the issue, and select Member Of tab

4.    Remove Guest group if it exists.

 

If Guest group does not exist, the profile of this account may be corrupted. Please refer to the following document to fix it:

 

Fix a corrupted user profile

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/769495bf-035c-4764-a538-c9b05c22001e1033.mspx 
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I already stated that the users are not part of a guest group, and any user logging in on the machine gets the same result (Temporary profile in use).
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It is a brand new machine and I did try a new profile. No change. :-(
Since this is a brand new machine I'd reload it. If you do end up fixing it it sounds like you could just be masking the problem to resurface at a later date with new issues.

You could try reloading the system files first to see if this fixes it.
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then it could be an infection ... have you swept for virus' and spyware?
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I'll scan the system and report back. Thanks guys.
I had this same issue and wanted to share my solution in case it will help someone.

My issue only seemed to affect one Organizational Unit in Active Directory, so I moved one of the users out of the affected OU and into another OU that did not have the issue.
Once the users was moved to the alternate OU they were able to login without the temporary profile.

I created a new OU and moved all users rather than bang my head against the wall any longer trying to figure out if it was a permissions issue or corruption issue.
I was actually forced to troubleshoot this to the end because as soon as I linked the GPO for the group to the newly created OU container my issue started again.  

I removed the policy from the OU container and the user was able to log in again without creating the temporary profile.

By process of elimination it appears the log on script (.bat) in the user configuration was corrupt.

Seems very odd considering no windows XP or windows 7 users had the temporary profile issue.  Only Windows 7 64-bit machines experienced this issue.
Ok, last entry.  The script was not corrupt.    It was waiting on a username and password before it would map the drives and continue logging in. The reason it was asking for a password is because the users were just recently moved from another department and did not have permission to one of the folders the script was trying to map.  Apparently 64 bit has elevated security because this was not happening with any of the XP or Windows 7 32 bit machines in the department.