Take a look at this post:
[url]http://cherrybyte.blogspot.com/2007/07/fixing-user-profiles-in-vista.html[/url]
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Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]


"Steve Bott" <SteveBott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7FD48D7A-48B2-41B5-9788-AE7CD508E8FD@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> My wife's laptop has been running fine since we purchased it about 6
> months
> ago - it's running Vista Home Basic. Today she switched it on and noticed
> that her shortcuts had gone, when she went into email there was nothing
> there, also her favourites had gone.
>
> When I booted it up I noticed that it was giving a message "Your profile
> was
> not loaded correctly!" and it says that it has loaded a default profile.
> I've
> tried doing a couple of system restores back to 2 previous dates, but each
> time they fail as the laptop is going through the final stages of booting.
> Can anyone suggest how I can fix this please.
>
> Many thanks in advance.[/color]