Corrupt User Profile - Help!

In article <ZH8Ua.18563$jL2.1462052@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>,
shanny_bean@hotmail.com says...

> Hi there,
>
> I am running WinXP Home Edition. I have my own profile (administrator) and
> the default guest profile.
>
> Last night I turned on my computer, and instead of loading as it normally
> does, I got the following message:
>
> "Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted." This was
> followed by a message stating that Windows could not find the local profile,
> so it would load a temporary one. Any changes to the temporary profile
> would be lost.
>
> I proceeded with the temporary profile, and went into Windows Explorer. My
> folder is still in Documents and Settings, and everything appears to still
> be there (Favorites, My Documents, etc.). Does anyone know how I can
> correct this corrupted profile? Any idea how it occurred? I guess I could
> simply re-load XP, but I'd like to know what caused this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shannon
>
> PS: If I do have to re-load XP, does anyone out there know how I can
> preserve my email? I use OE and Outlook.
>
>
>

Boot into Safe Mode and log-in as THE Administrator, What you are
logging in as is a User Account that you have called Administrator.
You will then be able to create a new user and copy all your email
documents, etc to this new user.

Good luck

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"Shannon" <shanny_bean@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ZH8Ua.18563$jL2.1462052@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...

> Hi there,
>
> I am running WinXP Home Edition. I have my own profile (administrator) and
> the default guest profile.
>
> Last night I turned on my computer, and instead of loading as it normally
> does, I got the following message:
>
> "Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted." This was
> followed by a message stating that Windows could not find the local profile,
> so it would load a temporary one. Any changes to the temporary profile
> would be lost.
>
> I proceeded with the temporary profile, and went into Windows Explorer. My
> folder is still in Documents and Settings, and everything appears to still
> be there (Favorites, My Documents, etc.). Does anyone know how I can
> correct this corrupted profile? Any idea how it occurred? I guess I could
> simply re-load XP, but I'd like to know what caused this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shannon
>
> PS: If I do have to re-load XP, does anyone out there know how I can
> preserve my email? I use OE and Outlook.
>
>

Try using System Restore, to when you had the profile working properly. If you need to reload, you can back up your e-mails, and other items as well, if you have the capability to copy files to disk. E-mails are easily back-up to floppies.

Use system restore to get things back. It's going to be rather difficult to
post-mortem the why. Hardware fault, overclocking or 3rd party applications
can and have caused this kind of issue before.

--
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Associate Expert
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"Shannon" <shanny_bean@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ZH8Ua.18563$jL2.1462052@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...

> Hi there,
>
> I am running WinXP Home Edition. I have my own profile (administrator)

and

> the default guest profile.
>
> Last night I turned on my computer, and instead of loading as it normally
> does, I got the following message:
>
> "Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted." This was
> followed by a message stating that Windows could not find the local

profile,

> so it would load a temporary one. Any changes to the temporary profile
> would be lost.
>
> I proceeded with the temporary profile, and went into Windows Explorer.

My

> folder is still in Documents and Settings, and everything appears to still
> be there (Favorites, My Documents, etc.). Does anyone know how I can
> correct this corrupted profile? Any idea how it occurred? I guess I

could

> simply re-load XP, but I'd like to know what caused this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shannon
>
> PS: If I do have to re-load XP, does anyone out there know how I can
> preserve my email? I use OE and Outlook.
>
>