How to Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7,Windows 8 and Windows 8.1

How to Fix Temporary Profile in Windows 7
For windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista

Question

I recently noticed that some of my desktop icons & files are disappeared, even I tried to create a new folder and restart the computer, it is also not there after restart, there might be it was deleted automatically. I search about this issue in internet and got the causes that ” my user profile has got corrupted. Please help me to solve it.

Solved Answer

Yes, your research goes to in a right way, this is the problem started because your user profiles has been corrupted, you have to repair it. Below we provides you a step-by-step guide to solve that issue, please follow the article instructions to solve this issue completely.

Method 1

1. Rename the temporary profile from registry

• Start your computer and login with temp profile
• Click on START and then type RUN in search box and then click on RUN from found results, then you will get a RUN BOX.
• Type a command in run box “regedit” and hit enter or click on OK, then you will appear a registry edition

• Please locate the following  path in registry editor and rename two keys (as per shown below screenshot)
  

• HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
• You will get the similar keys under “profile list”, however one key may shows as end with “.bak”
• “.bak” is a your original profile Example: “SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770.bak”
• “Without .Bak” is a your current temp profile (which currently logged on with this profile) Example:“SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770″
• You have to Rename both entries
• Rename the key “Without .Bak“, rename it and put “.temp” in the end
  SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770″
                                    to
  SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770.temp”
• Rename the key with “.Bak“,  rename it and remove “.bak” from the end
  SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770.bak”
                                   to
  “SID-1213428093-345618312-2235-148770″

• That’s it, Now click on start and click on log off
• After log off, restart the computer once.
• After restart it will automatically get your old (original) profile

If the problem still persist then you have to run the check disk go to method 2.

Method 2

• Open my computer
• Right click on C drive (where is installed the windows), and then click on properties
• Then a properties page will be appeared and please click on the tool tab
• Then you will get a button “check now”, Please click on that then a another popup will be appeared
• In this popup please tick all two boxes and click on start
• it will take time to finish and it might be create a scheduled to run this check disk in a next startup, then so please restart your computer (as per shown below screenshot)

That’s it, Now restart your computer..Issue must be solved, you can able to login your profile.