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Win 7 temp profile problem

I have one user on a business network (running 2003 SP2 servers) who keeps having login problems on his Win 7 machine. It's happened 4 time now, where he can't log in, and I have to log in as the admin, run regedit to recover his profile entry in the registry by renaming the temp profile created, and rename his old one back. He can then log in normally and everything is fine. And then it happens again in few weeks. Does anyone have any idea what can cause this? I have attached a file with a screenshot off the registry entry that I have to change, and that might explain it better. Thanks for any feedback.

In the screenshot, the .bk entry is from the last time this happened, the .bak entry is his proper profile entry that I have to rename, and the other entry ending in 2493 is the temp profile entry just created.

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hi,

missing screen shot, also check if original profile is exist. if yes then rename it once and check.

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So you think it's a corrupt profile? I'll give it a try. Thanks for the feedback.

Have you checked his roaming profile? If not then reset that as well, to find it go into AD and then check the profile tab

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I think I forgot to click on upload for the file
Registry.jpg

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For alexgreen312: I am attaching the profile tab in AD. Not sure how to reset his roaming profile.
Profile.jpg

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Thx M Roe, I'll check it out.

As per attcahed image, no roaming profile is configured.

rename the original profile and check.

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Created new user profile this morning. Will monitor. Thanks for the feedback.

Glad I could help