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Hey guys, I have a serious problem with my computer. I'm using Windows XP and it has sometimes given me the message "Windows cannot find the locally stored profile" and will log me on with a temporary account which has nothing on it - none of my music, none of my movies, none of my Word documents, nothing.
I checked the Disk Defrag and I have the exact same amount of harddrive space as before all of this shit started, so I all of my stuff is still on the harddrive somewhere.
I Google'd around, but since I'm computer illiterate, I was only able to understand that I'm supposed to create a new user account. Well, I did create a new one and gave it full Admin status. Restarted, had to choose which account to log onto:
My regular admin account which is fucked up
My new admin account which I just made
So, I try the new admin account. Exact same thing. Virgin screen, none of my icons on the desktop, Recycle Bin down in the lower right hand corner, none of my files, almost as if I just bought the thing.
Then I restart again and try my regular admin account. Exact same thing.
I'm losing my mind and I have to go to class in three hours. I couldn't think of any other place to turn than here.
Thank you. 
  
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It happens quite frequently in Vista too.
So, I feel your pain brother. Any light shed on this would be really really helpful  .
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This can happen for many reasons, more often you'll see it happening on a domain network with roaming profiles, which I highly doubt you're using at home. Best would be to start with your event logs,
Start / Execute / eventvwr / <enter>
Look for errors in the Application and System tabs, read the errors, note the event IDs, and look hem up on google, or post hem back here, I'll try to help.
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A simple thing that will at least put all your files in the right folders, should restore a lot of your settings (i.e. browsers and whatnot):
Make sure you're showing hidden files (Tools-Folder Options-View-Show hidden files and folders), then navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\-YourOldAccountName\, mark everything (ctrl+a), copy everything (ctrl+c), then go to the folder of your new account (C:\Documents and Settings\-YourNewAccountName) and paste it there (ctrl+v).
Since you're showing hidden files, it'll copy a lot of old "Local Settings" including application data n shit so you'll get quite a few things restored. You'll have to spend a bit of time here and there to make the rest work, but eventually you'll just go back and delete all the files in the old account folder since you won't need em anymore.
Best of luck
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On August 26 2010 23:51 Zaul wrote:
A simple thing that will at least put all your files in the right folders, should restore a lot of your settings (i.e. browsers and whatnot):
Make sure you're showing hidden files (Tools-Folder Options-View-Show hidden files and folders), then navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\-YourOldAccountName\, mark everything (ctrl+a), copy everything (ctrl+c), then go to the folder of your new account (C:\Documents and Settings\-YourNewAccountName) and paste it there (ctrl+v).
Since you're showing hidden files, it'll copy a lot of old "Local Settings" including application data n shit so you'll get quite a few things restored. You'll have to spend a bit of time here and there to make the rest work, but eventually you'll just go back and delete all the files in the old account folder since you won't need em anymore.
Best of luck
This worked, I found all of my music and movies and shit. The next problem is all of my favorites folders in Google Chrome. I guess those are just gone forever.
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I have no idea about that, I'll stay with Firefox until the end of time.
I know with firefox, all the settings you want are in C:\Documents and Settings\YourAccountName\Application Data\Mozilla\ and ...\LocalSettings\Mozilla\
If I have those 2 as backups I can restore all of FF in the blink of an eye. 
But those would have copied with the rest if you did everything as I described so I don't know, did you reboot yet? Maybe Chrome needs that ... Otherwise, it's just favorites, oh well ... least you got the rest back
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Have you tried system restore?
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EPT
