Windows Vista will not create user profile
I have a 2008 domain. I have one Vista machine that has not been used in a few months. I need to set it up for a user. It will not create a user profile. It keeps using a temporary profile. How do I fix this? Several user profiles were created in the past
Is there any possibility that the folder called Default User got deleted from the users folder. Whenever a new user is created it copies that folder and names it by the users name
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Looks like that Default user is gone. What do I do?
disjoin the computer from the domain and rejoin it again.
Hi
Its a hidden folder. Please make sure you enable show hidden files from folder options. If its not there please copy one from a working computer and put it there. if its not allowing you to touch it turn uac off
Its a hidden folder. Please make sure you enable show hidden files from folder options. If its not there please copy one from a working computer and put it there. if its not allowing you to touch it turn uac off
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I rjoined the domain and now there is a default user. I will let you know what happens in a few minutes.
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I logged in the user and I still get "Your user profile has not been loaded correctly. You have been logged in with a temporary profile." He is in the local administrators group. Does that make a difference?
Are you using the DNS servers of the Domain controllers only, or do you have some other external DNS servers as well? It should only be the domain controllers.
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Only the Domain controllers. When I don an ipconfig /all everything looks fine.
Is it a roaming profile or local profile?
disjoin from domain and reboot, change computer name and reboot, rejoin to domain. Vista is crazy like this.
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I will try that. I'm glad I will never have another Vista to deal with.
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Same error.
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Does anyone have any ideas?
can you log in with another user account? (not administrator)
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Yes. I enabled an old account that had been disabled and logged in with it. The account is no different than the one I am trying to set up on this computer.
Is it a roaming profile or local profile?
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They are both regular profiles from AD. We do not have roaming profiles.
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Thank you very much. It worked.