Your user profile is a collection of settings that let you customize the computer appearance and performance. It contains settings for desktop backgrounds, screen savers, sound settings, and other features. User profiles help make sure that your personal preferences are used when you log on to Windows.
Corrupted User Profile in Windows 7
Locate the C:\Users\New_Username folder, in which C is the drive that Windows is installed on, and New_Username is the name of the user profile that you created earlier in this method.
If you have email messages in an email program, you must import your email messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. If everything is working correctly, you can now delete the old profile.
Some users report that they fix a corrupted user profile Windows 10 by changing some settings in Registry Editor. In order to repair the Windows 10 user profile, you need to log in to another user account or start your computer in Safe Mode.
Step 3. Expand the ProfileList folder, and then select each S-1-5 folder and double click the ProfileImagePath entry in it to verify which Windows 10 corrupted user profile is related to. To do so, you can look at the Data column for the entry and the User Name is visible in the column.
Another tested solution is to create a new user profile and transfer files from the corrupted one. If you already have another account registered on your PC, you just need to copy files from the corrupt one to it. If not, enter into Safe Mode and follow the steps below carefully.
According to user reports, performing an SFC or DISM scan helps fix a corrupted user profile Windows 10. If you are still troubled by the issue, you can try this method to repair Windows system files.
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User profiles automatically create and maintain the desktop settings for each user's work environment on the local computer. A user profile is created for each user when the user logs on to a computer for the first time.
Use the newly created user account to log on. If you experience the same errors that led you to question the suspect user profile, the user profile is damaged. If you do not experience any errors, it is the user account that is damaged.
There are 3 key steps that need to be taken in order to recreate a local profile on Windows 10, 8.1 and 7. Log on as a different user, rename the profile folder and remove the profile from the profile list in the Windows Registry.
The first step, if the profile is not completely corrupt, is to rename the temporary profile registry key and revert the correct profile back.Log in with your temporary profile if your account has administrative rights or with the local administrator account.
Start the registry editor and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Look for the profile with the ".bak". This is the CORRECT old profile.
Rename the profile that does not have ".bak" by adding "_new" to the end. You can really add anything to change the name of this profile, just be sure to rename the profile with the matching SID. Next remove the ".bak" from the correct profile.
Log off and then log back in with the profile that was problematic. It is possible that Windows will undo everything you have just done and rename the profile again. If this happens you can try running a Check Disk on the partition that contains the user profiles. You will need to re-do all the steps above, run Check Disk, and restart. If this doesn't correct the issue, you will need to remove the offending profile and recreate it.
To remove the domain profile and recreate it:
In this quick and short guide we are going to cover how to properly rebuild user profile in Windows 7. It is not very hard and we will want to make a backup just in case so that we do not lose any data.
Sometimes applications can start acting weird or stop working altogether and a reload of the OS is not always necessary to fix this issue. If you are able to log into another account on your PC and run the application with no issues, you most likely have something corrupt inside of your profile. Here are the steps I take to rebuild a user profile in Windows 7.
Now that you have a local administrator account ready, you will need to find the user profile folder name that is having the issues. You need to locate this information as you will be working on this folder in the next step, after that is done you will need to reboot your PC. (You might want to print out this article or reference this article on your phone or tablet if you are working on the PC that you are reading this on)
You can now copy and paste any files you want from your old profile folder into your new current profile folder. Make sure you copy each folder individually to avoid bringing some hidden or problematic system files to the new user profile.
I looked at the computer and there is a temp hp user under C:\Users. Her user profile is now set to that folder from the update. Her old files are under C:\Users\Monique (her old user profile and current username.) Is there any way to change the path of the user profile to get her files back to normal? They are still there but she doesn't want to go to that path every time to find her stuff.
This means that anything that user would do under that profile would get wiped immediately upon logging off. This problem seems to happen more frequently when your computer is a member of Active Directory domain.
The user profile in Windows can be corrupted if the system update is unsuccessful, or when installing/removing some program. In the most difficult cases you have to create a new account for yourself, configure it and copy all the files.
Click the left mouse button on the folder in the left panel that corresponds to your SID. In the right pane, double-click ProfileImagePath. In the Value data box, type the correct path for your user profile.
We know this works as we have done this hundreds of times. Did you rename/delete the original user profile folder before following the rest of the steps? Make sure you follow the directions very carefully. This works for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
I have used this method several times and it works fine. However, I want to know the root cause of the issue. Why do I have several users per week with corrupted profiles? They users are on the same domain, they use redirected desktops and/or roaming profiles. Our server is a Win 2008R2 and the users run WIN 7 Pro. Is there something we can do to the server that could stop this from occurring/ There has to be a centralized issue somewhere that causes so many of these profile corruptions. Any ideas?
I totally agree with you Brad. I have seen this issue on and off since 2006. Never tracked down the exact cause. However, several users per week sounds like an excessive amount. At my previous employer, we maintained about 400 employees and I would estimate we saw about 1-2 corrupt profiles per month. May I ask how many users you are dealing with?
Note: if you heavily customize LibreOffice, then making a periodic backup of the profile may help in case of problem. Even if shortcuts, user interface, etc. can be exported through single configuration files, restoring the whole profile will spare you the import of each single configuration file and the reinstallation of the extensions you could have added.
The number used in the path below refers to the last major version of LibreOffice that created that kind of profile. The format has changed from LibreOffice 3 to LibreOffice 4. You might wonder why the number has not increased with LibreOffice 5; this is because the format has not changed since LibreOffice 4. Changing that number will lose the user's personal configuration. If LibreOffice changes or removes this number in the future, then your own scripts must be modified.
NOTE: other than the user profile, LibreOffice considers the configuration for all users you can find in the subfolders inside the main installation folder (for example, /opt/libreoffice/share on Linux for the "official" LibreOffice build, or \Program files\libreoffice\share on Windows)
A single user profile must only ever be accessed by a single LibreOffice process. Internally, if a single user starts multiple LibreOffice processes that would all access the same user profile, only the first process does any actual work, like opening documents for editing, and the excess processes pass on their command line arguments to the first one for processing. Especially, one must not reuse a single user profile across multiple accounts on one computer, or across computers.
Also, different versions of LibreOffice can store different sorts of data in their respective user profiles. If a new version of LibreOffice does not yet find a user profile at the default location for that version, it looks for existing user profiles from old LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org versions at well-known locations and migrates any data it can continue to use to the new location. Strange effects might occur, if you explicitly request a LibreOffice version to reuse a user profile from another version.
If time is not on your side and you know deleting the user profile resolves the problem, then create a virtual machine of the problematic computer so you can continue your investigation at a later time. Incorrect data stored in user settings does not make the profile corrupt. 2ff7e9595c
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