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Windows 7 Professional Profile Problem

We have a network with multiple workstations. We have been installing workstations with a Windows 7 OS without issue.

We do not use or have setup Roaming Profiles.

We have a user who logs into a Windows 7 Workstation. Everything comes up normally and he works without issue. The next time he logged in, the desktop came up without any of his ICONS except for the Windows 7 default icons. We checked to make sure his domain user id was loaded in the user profiles, it was (With Local Admin Rihts). We tried deleting his profile and re-creating it. It did not work. No matter what we try his profile always comes up as the windows default and all changes he made prior are gone.

We dont know what may be causing this problem. Any help would be appriciated.

senon3

Please try the following:
1. Log in as the user affected and logout
2. Log in as the local administrator
3. Delete the following folders:
- C:\users\%username% <-- Affected user
- C:\users\TEMP

4. And the users registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<SID>
Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to ensure that you're deleting the right one.
Remember to take backup of the registry before deleting :-)

5. Reboot and try to log in again as the user

Let me know if it doesn't resolve your problem.

// senon3

Ryan Smith

Is this happening only for that one user? Or only for that system? If the user logs into another system and makes changes to the desktop, does it save? Need to distinguish of this is happening only for that user or is it the system.

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