Just log in as administrator and rename the bad profile.
Login as the user. This will create a new profile
Login as administrator and copy documents, desktop, etc from the bad to the
new profile
Login as user. You should be good to go.


"Ron B." <RonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Apparently this is stumping everybody. But not having an answer for this
> is
> not acceptable, unless you're not planning on having networked PCs ever
> again. There needs to be a way to fix a corrupted profile without just
> giving you an entirely new name.
>
> I tried System Restore, that doesn't work
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> Ron B.
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> "Ron B." wrote:
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>> My domain profile got corrupted on Vista, I'm getting the usual "loading
>> temporary profile" message when I try to log in. I've seen suggestions
>> to
>> just create a new user and move everything over. But since I log into a
>> domain, I can't just create a new user without also creating a whole new
>> domain profile. I'd rather just reinstall Vista (or downgrade to XP) if
>> this
>> is the only other option.
>>
>> Is there any way to get Vista to just recreate profile settings for the
>> same
>> user? I do this all the time for domain users in XP.
>>
>> This was the link to create a new profile in Vista:
>> [url]http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/769495bf-035c-4764-a538-c9b05c22001e1033.mspx[/url]
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