Solved Built-in Administrator profile missing, error 1511

[stars1234]

Somehow my "built-in Administrator" has been damaged. After loading, there is a pop-up that tells me "you have been logged on with a temporary profile..." Checking Event Viewer shows Error 1511, "Windows cannot find local profile," has occurred. I believe I have an understanding of how to fix this if it were a "standard" or "administrator" profile but am not certain what to do, since this is the "built-in administrator" profile. I have tried: stopping/starting the built-in Administrator from a non-elevated administrator account. loggin to Administrator (built in) in safe mode. log off, hoping for it to create a new profile. no luck with anything. I do not have a Win7 DVD (only the hidden backup on my system hdd). there is no "Restore" available that is prior to the problem.

 

[Brink]

Hello stars,

You might see if the tutorial below may be able to help with this user profile error. Since it's your built-in Administrator that is affected, you could also do this in any other administrator account if available.

User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

 

[VistaKing]

Open the registry . Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Locate the SID folder . Do you see two keys that end in 500 ? One 500.bak and 500 like in the tutorial above ?

 

[stars1234]

sorry for taking so long to get back--firefox got crashed.

Do I see two files ending in 500? No and Yes.
when looking from my administrator account (non-elevated) I have only one that ends in 500. It is the .bak.
when looking from my built-in Administrator (it loads as a temporary profile) I see two.

 

[VistaKing]

Take a look at the post #2 to get your issue fixed . Do the steps inside your Temporary user account .

 

[stars1234]

ok. so, attempt the fix from the built-in Administrator (which is a temporary profile--it tells me nothing will be saved) login?

 

[Brink]

stars,

Do you have another administrator account to log on to do this in instead?

 

[VistaKing]

I never had an issue . Login to your administrator account not the built in one and try there .

 

[stars1234]

I'm getting confused as to which act to log in.
Yes, I have a few regular "admin" accounts. When I looked for keys ending in 500 from one of those it showed only one, the .bak key.
When I looked for 500 keys from the acct with elevated: built-in, active, Real Admin, I find two 500 keys--which makes sense, because it is loading both but they are temporary?
Do, I then, not do safe mode or the real Admin, but try from one of the regular admins?

What I do not understand is if I am deleting info for the profile I log in with, shouldn't it be from the real admin account? but if i do that will it delete the built-in profile?

 

[VistaKing]

When you click on the key with 500.bak on the right hand side locate ProfileImagePath it should say C:\Users\TEMP am I correct ?

 

[stars1234]

no, it gives the path as "C:\Users\Administrator" the path is the same, whether logged in from the regular admin or the Full, built-in Administrator (real admin privileges).

 

[cottonball]

starts1234,

For some additional info, consider downloading:
ReProfiler | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

Right-click the zip file and extract it to its own folder on the Desktop.

Open the Reprofiler folder, and double-click the Reprofiler application.

The program's console opens titled: Profiles in C:\Users
It shows you the Assigned folder to each User, and also shows the SID.

You can use the Snipping tool to provide a screenshot and let us see what appears on the ReProfiler console:
How to Use the Snipping Tool in Vista

 

[stars1234]

okay. I'll get to work on that. Maybe I confused the issue.
I am thinking the "built-in administrator" account is the one with Full privileges, which is enabled by "net user Administrator /active:yes."
And an account labeled "Administrator" is not the "built-in administrator."
there is only one "built-in" admin but there can be many administrator accounts.
is that correct, or is it the other way around?

 

[VistaKing]

Yes you could enable the built-in Administrator by opening up an elevated command prompt and type in

Net user administrator /active:yes

When you create a new user account you could either have the user be a Standard user or an Administrator .

 

[Brink]

okay. I'll get to work on that. Maybe I confused the issue.
I am thinking the "built-in administrator" account is the one with Full privileges, which is enabled by "net user Administrator /active:yes."
And an account labeled "Administrator" is not the "built-in administrator."
there is only one "built-in" admin but there can be many administrator accounts.
is that correct, or is it the other way around?

Stars,

If the account has the name "Administrator", then it's the built-in Administrator account. That's the only account with that name, and it is the one with full elevated unrestricted rights.

Please go ahead and log on to any of your other administrator accounts that will let you do so without any errors, then do the tutorial below to fix the account that you are getting this error with.


User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile

 

[stars1234]

Done. solved. Thanks Brink, Vistaking, Cottonball (that prgrm helped identify the account). The 500 key was the Administrator profile key. It didn't show up on the named administrator account I was using--only from looking at the registry with a new, named administrator did I see both ...500 & ...500.bak--strange. 500 path was c:\Users\Temp. While the ...500.bak path was c:\users\Administrator. I deleted each registry key while logged in with the new, named administrator. checked for the keys again with the named administrator account I was using when I originally started. that user, when running regedit, still showed the ...500.bak. I deleted it again. logged off/rebooted. Went to the built-in Administrator. It told me it was creating my desktop. The spinner was on for about 5 minutes while it did this (I was worried). It finally came up--and voilà! my built-in Account is back. and checking from my other, named administrator accounts, the keys are normal and there is no ...500.bak in the list. Thank again! -- one problem down, others to go (ha). situation normal. Good Job!

 

[VistaKing]

You don't want to have the built in Administrator account enabled at all time or use at all time . The 500 SID key is for the built-in account .

To disable the built-in account do this

Open an elevated command prompt from an administrator account ( not built-in account )

Open up an Elevated Command Prompt. Click on rb: in

type CMD . Right click on CMD under Programs (1) choose

. On the User Access Control window click on the Yes button . Command Prompt opens up to C:\Windows\System32>_

Type this command net user Administrator /active:no and press [ENTER]

You should see " The command completed successfully "

 

[cottonball]

stars1234,

Glad you solved the problem using the excellent tutorial.

 

[Brink]

Done. solved. Thanks Brink, Vistaking, Cottonball (that prgrm helped identify the account). The 500 key was the Administrator profile key. It didn't show up on the named administrator account I was using--only from looking at the registry with a new, named administrator did I see both ...500 & ...500.bak--strange. 500 path was c:\Users\Temp. While the ...500.bak path was c:\users\Administrator. I deleted each registry key while logged in with the new, named administrator. checked for the keys again with the named administrator account I was using when I originally started. that user, when running regedit, still showed the ...500.bak. I deleted it again. logged off/rebooted. Went to the built-in Administrator. It told me it was creating my desktop. The spinner was on for about 5 minutes while it did this (I was worried). It finally came up--and voilà! my built-in Account is back. and checking from my other, named administrator accounts, the keys are normal and there is no ...500.bak in the list. Thank again! -- one problem down, others to go (ha). situation normal. Good Job!

You're most welcome Stars. I'm glad we could help.