I am not sure if this is the right place to start this thread but if there is a better place please let me know.
I have this recurring issue with the user profile ceasing to exist, almost daily, and I have seen several fixes for this on several boards and probably this one.
From the .bak and .ba at the end of the registry files to reinstallng the OS. Basically, what it comes down to is that it works fine for a while I will be surfing or gaming then it freezes for a while and then all my icons and shortcuts disappear when I use the task manager to end the unresponsive program. When I try to relaunch it says that the program is no longer installed or has moved. If I reboot it states that the user profile isn't there and it can't log me in, can't get in in safe mode either. On the odd occasion when I can get in I double check the registry to see if the .bak or .ba is on the user profilelist and it is not there but the refcount is not 0 nor is the other one (sorry I am at work and not looking at it right this second but will check tonight and edit this post).
The only way I can rectify this is to do a system restore to the last one and it works fine for about 24 hours or so then starts all over again. This is fairly new install with only office and a few steam games installed and only one change was made to the install which was moving the user, program files and program files (x86) folders to my F: Drive (WD Caviar Blue I think) and this is because I am using an ADATA 64GB SSD as the OS drive... the instructions I used on that particular forum indicate no one else has had an issue like this. (registry was changed so that C:/users is now routed to F:/users and I have triple checked that nothing was missed on this change).
The only thing I have yet to try is to create a new user profile and change port all the files to that and see if it is just the profile itself that keeps dying. I would love to find the root cause of this to fix that instead of this crappy work around to restore everytime.
Background: whereas I am no slouch on a computer I am mostly self taught and nomenclature is something of a weakness as of yet so please be specific and define acronyms the first time please. I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me.
I have this recurring issue with the user profile ceasing to exist, almost daily, and I have seen several fixes for this on several boards and probably this one.
From the .bak and .ba at the end of the registry files to reinstallng the OS. Basically, what it comes down to is that it works fine for a while I will be surfing or gaming then it freezes for a while and then all my icons and shortcuts disappear when I use the task manager to end the unresponsive program. When I try to relaunch it says that the program is no longer installed or has moved. If I reboot it states that the user profile isn't there and it can't log me in, can't get in in safe mode either. On the odd occasion when I can get in I double check the registry to see if the .bak or .ba is on the user profilelist and it is not there but the refcount is not 0 nor is the other one (sorry I am at work and not looking at it right this second but will check tonight and edit this post).
The only way I can rectify this is to do a system restore to the last one and it works fine for about 24 hours or so then starts all over again. This is fairly new install with only office and a few steam games installed and only one change was made to the install which was moving the user, program files and program files (x86) folders to my F: Drive (WD Caviar Blue I think) and this is because I am using an ADATA 64GB SSD as the OS drive... the instructions I used on that particular forum indicate no one else has had an issue like this. (registry was changed so that C:/users is now routed to F:/users and I have triple checked that nothing was missed on this change).
The only thing I have yet to try is to create a new user profile and change port all the files to that and see if it is just the profile itself that keeps dying. I would love to find the root cause of this to fix that instead of this crappy work around to restore everytime.
Background: whereas I am no slouch on a computer I am mostly self taught and nomenclature is something of a weakness as of yet so please be specific and define acronyms the first time please. I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home Built
- OS
- Windows 7 64
- CPU
- Quad-Core Phenom AMD 98xx
- Motherboard
- MSI Platinum
- Memory
- 4gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI 4800 series
- Sound Card
- integrated
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 47"
- Hard Drives
- ADATA SSD (OS)
WD Caviar Green (I believe set to receive user profile data so as not to fill up the SSD)
various others just for storage.
- Case
- Thermaltake
- Cooling
- adequate
