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Windows Temporary Profile Issue

I have been working on a user's PC, who works for a company that is on a domain environment. This user has had no issues up until today. It started off with them logging for the day, once they logged in normally, none of the desktop icons would work, essentially they were all dead. The "All Programs" list was empty, and it would not even allow them to open "My Computer" to view the C:\ drive.  From this point, I logged into the administrative profile, which loaded perfectly, and I deleted her profile to attempt a reset of her profile. Once this was done, she was able to log back into her profile successfully. Everything was reset and looked fine, the only issue was that now this was displaying a "Temporary Profile - data/settings will be reset upon logout". She needed access for the day so I kept her logged in and told her not to log out until we figure this out.  

This is a Windows 7 x32 PC. Nothing was changed in Active Directory as far as her user/permissions go. I ran a thorough virus scan to insure that her PC was not compromised maliciously in some form. I also had no problems on other profiles except hers. Does anyone know how to make her profile become permanent again? Let me know if I can provide anymore information in order to help solve this, thanks!
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Hi,
This is a group policy, an administrator could have put the user under strict policies.
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This happens from time to time on our network...logging off and back on usually fixes it without further action.