I have a user that is getting this message when logging in the it loads a temporary profile HOW DO I FIX THIS? Windows xp machine sp3 win 2k3 server domain Heres error User Environment Windows did not load your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Windows did not load your profile because a server copy of the profile folder already exists that does not have the correct security. Either the current user or the Administrator's group must be the owner of the folder. Contact your network administrator. Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. How do i fix this??? Thanks in advance Ehunt

the quickest way to fix this is to back up the profile (If necessary), and zap it from both places. ensure the user is not logged on anywhere! on the xp machine, reboot, logon as you (or anybody other than the affected user), and use System Properties, Advanced to delete the user's profile. this method will zap both the files of the profile, and the registry entries for that profile. log the user on and off a couple of times, to ensure that a fresh, working profile is correctly roaming up & down.Don

Don, Thanks for your help....when you say systems properties, advanced to delete the users profle??? Where are you talking about doing this is.....right click my computer the goto properties then got to advance tab them to user profile? If so then I did this and I was logged on as admin and the users profile wasnt there...Do you know why this is??? Thanks again for your help

the registry entries for that users profile may be missing, but the file may be present (leading to the symptom you're seeing) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159927 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814584 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2462308 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816593 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843 The above methods are the supported methods for deleting a user profile. There are other methods, and I'll try and find an article or blog post about them (it involves direct registry edits, which can be hazardous :) Edit: more fodder: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/10/20/mythical-creatures-corrupt-user-profiles.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/05/21/temporary-user-profiles-and-the-citrix-ica-client.aspx Edit: this great article by Alan Burchill tells a bit more of the story: http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2011/07/how-to-reset-a-roaming-profile-in-windows-7/ Edit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324734 This article explains which registry keys are used to point to the user's profile path. From memory (on XP, am getting a bit dusty on it), you can delete the reg key for the particular user's SID, but there's another registry key which has a reference, and you need to delete that too. (except I can't find that other detail right now ): e.g. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-3685888640-1517697348-2983638523-1000] contains a REG_EXPAND_SZ with a value of c:\Documents and Settings\Don (or similar). This tells you that the SID of S-1-5-21-3685888640-1517697348-2983638523-1000, is for a username of Don. This tells you the path where Don's profile is pointed, and is where there is a permissions issue (or other issue) a) reboot and logon as another (admin) account b) delete (or rename) the folder referenced in ProfileImagePath (eg rename "Don" to be "Don.saved"c ) in regedit, delete (or rename) the key for that users SID (eg rename S-1-5-21-3685888640-1517697348-2983638523-1000 to be DonBadProfile) d) logoff and then logon as Don (which will create a new set of registry entries and a new profile folder path (it will copy the central profile down from the server, so if you still have trouble, the central profile could be bad) Don

the quickest way to fix this is to back up the profile (If necessary), and zap it from both places. ensure the user is not logged on anywhere! on the xp machine, reboot, logon as you (or anybody other than the affected user), and use System Properties, Advanced to delete the user's profile. this method will zap both the files of the profile, and the registry entries for that profile. log the user on and off a couple of times, to ensure that a fresh, working profile is correctly roaming up & down.Don