Monday, March 02, 2009

Vista doesn't create user profile, just a temp profile. Eventid 1511 in eventlogs as well

1. Reboot
2. Log on as a local admin other than the user with the profile problem.
3. Copy the old C:\Users\%UserName% contents to a network location.
4. Delete the C:\Users\%UserName% directory
5. Delte the C:\Users\TEMP directory
6. Regedit
7. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
8. Find the SID for the user with the corrupted profile and delete it (profile directory will be C:\Users\%UserName%.
9. Reboot.
10. Logon with the affected user's account.

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