Help with "you have been logged on with a temporary profile windows 7"

[prvnrk]

Help with "you have been logged on with a temporary profile windows 7"

Hello friends,

I have windows 7 Pro Office laptop, work from home using Cisco VPN client to connect to the Corporate network. I'm local admin of my laptop. Everything works fine except for the user profile. Every time I login (tried rebooting & re-login several times) I get the message "you have been logged on with a temporary profile" and I don't see anything on my desktop/profile/settings/history etc.

What I tried so far
1) sfc /scannow - showed & fixed couple of errors
2) chkdsk - No errors
3) Tried to fix this way - How to Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7 (Step by Step Guide)

But my laptop doesn't have the .bak profile at all. When I login, i get some temporary folder as home directory. Please see below screenshot

4) I do have another office laptop which doesn't have any problem hence tried Profile copying from good one to bad laptop using "Windows Easy Transfer", transferred successfully but same error.


Could anyone please advise on how can I fix this issue without involving my Windows admin from my office?

Many thanks!!

 

[Paul Black]

Hi prvnrk,

Just a thought, do you have any proxy settings set? If you have then uncheck them and try it.

Have you tried running ipconfig /all on both of the laptops to see if there are any differences that jump out at you?

Here is a link that might also help:

How to Fix Windows 7 Temp Issue on Workgroup and Domain Environment

Here are two YouTube videos that might also help:

You have been logged on with a temporary profile fix
[FIXED] You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Windows 7

I hope this helps!

 

[MSClin]

Event Viewer is logging things like this, you can check there first and share the info. I suggest you to open "msconfig" and try this:

Go to Services section > Hide all Microsoft services > Disable All > Go to Startup section > Disable All > Apply & OK.

If the fix I described above resolved your problem, most likely a program at startup is locking your user files, therefore Windows not letting you log in. If nothing helps, most likely your user profile is corrupted. Creating a new user would be the best thing you can do.

 

[z3r010]

We have a tutorial for this - User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

[prvnrk]

Hi Paul, thank you for the reply. If you see my first post I already tried what you suggested. "ipconfig/all" on both laptops show same except for IP addresses.

Hi MSclin - thank you, tried that but no luck.

Hi z3r010 - thank you for the reply. Initially there was only 1 profile in the registry without .bak. So I edited the RefCount and State to zero value (earlier they had some numbers). After rebooting, again it logged in with temp profile but the difference is that I see 2 profiles (.bak created now). I renamed the orig to .bk and .bak to orig (removing extension) and rebooted. But same problem continues with additional profile being created with .bak extension.

The evenlog shows "windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile".

Any suggestions please?

 

[Paul Black]

Hi prvnrk,

Did you check the proxy settings on both computers to see if they were both the same, i.e. enabled of disabled?
I only say this because I had a similar problem a few years ago and it turned out to be just that!

I hope this helps!

 

[prvnrk]

Hi Paul, Thanks for reply but I'm not sure how proxy plays a role here.

On both laptops proxy settings are same. There's a tool installed on my laptops called "Myconnect proxy Tool" which triggers proxy ON or OFF automatically when you connect/disconnects VPN (as we need proxy only when we connect to VPN).

 

[prvnrk]

Home directory exists but it's blank on problematic laptop but on working laptop there're few files. I'm not sure why it's blank even after I copied the content from working to non-working using "Windows easy share". Can I copy the contents of home directory (c:\users\<user>) from working to non-working directly?

Working laptop's - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Not-working laptop's - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

I tried to set values (like ProfileImagePath etc.) similar to working and set 0 (zero) to RefCount & State but after rebooting, its renamed to .bak and current profile has again wrong values.