HELP loading "user profile" in windows??

[willhenderson]

omg can someone plz help me,...i tried starting my windows just this morning and i get "Windows Cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include Unsufficient Security Rights or a Corrupt Local Profile." then onto "Windows cant find the local profile and is logging you in with a temporary profile. Any changes you make will be lost when you log off"

can someone tell me how i can get my stuff back,this is really bumming me out, all my settings are back to factory thankfully i see some of my music and dont think i lost that,but i had everything tweaked,andd lord ive lost all my bookmarks in firefox(some very important links there) or so it seems how can i recover this profile??? any help/ideas would be appreciated

i believe this happened after running cc cleaners newest version i think it might have deleted somethin it shouldnt have,while doing a clean

[redwudz]

You could try doing a system restore to a date before you cleaned the computer. If no luck, you would have to go to User Accounts and create a new account as a administrator, unless your old account is still there. Control Panel>User Accounts.

For your bookmarks. In the future you might want to export a copy to disc or floppy to back them up in case you have a similar problem again.

All the files may still be 'somewhere', but outside of the registry, I'm not sure where to look.

[ozymango]

Don't panic! I'll bet you can recover pretty much everything.

First, you're using XP, correct? If so, when you log in with your temp profile, open the C: drive but first open My Computer, then select Tools>Folder Options and the View tab, and set the radio button under "Hidden files and folders" to "Show hidden files and folders.

Then, browse the "Documents and Settings" folder. Your original profile is in there somewhere, name is the same as your login name. If you've got XP set so it doesn't ask for a login name, then there may be a profile named "Administrator," which might be it, but I'm guessing there'll be a profile folder with something resembling your name on it.

Open your "dead" profile folder, and inside will be a bunch of subfolders that should contain pretty much all your missing files -- check the "Desktop" folder, also the "My Documents" or "[profile name] Documents" folder. Your Firefox bookmarks will be in a subfolder -- open the folder "Application Data" (it's a hidden folder, which is why you have to enable viewing hidden files and folders), then inside that drill down to Mozilla>Firefox>Profiles and inside that should be one folder with a name like "37zy3dr.default" or like that. Whatever it's called, open that folder, and inside will be a file "bookmarks.html." That's your Firefox booksmarks file.

So start with the above and see how lost or found you get, and let us know when you're in so we can walk through recovering your stuff. Whenever profiles get corrupted I find it's easier just to copy the critical data from that profile into a new profile/username than to spend much time chasing down what broke.

Oh, and you should create a new admin level user and move your stuff there. Ever created a new user? If not, just go to Control Panel>User Accounts and the wizard will walk you through it. Create a new user and then logout/login under that user, and copy the stuff from your old profile to the new one.

Then backup everything because who knows what caused your profile corruption in the first place!

[dwill123]

ditto what redwudz said. This happened to me earlier this year after I tried to update firefox. I had to create a new id with admin rights. Lost my bookmarks but I didn't lose any data.

[willhenderson]

UPDATE: i rolled it back with a simple restore and it did the trick guys!! thanks so much!


@ozymango - very clear and down to the point mate thanks,yes ive noticed inside the shell of my dead profile all the folders all my desktop items and such was still in place,that was going to be my next thing in mind having to create another and move everything

just now backed up my bookmarks.....and created another restore point as of today...(to be on the safe side)thanks again fellas!