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#1 cardie

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Posted 08 February 2015 - 01:07 PM

Good morro everyone.

 

I think ive had this issue once before and im sure its an easy fix...

 

I was on the PC last night, all well and good just doing a bit of browsing on the internet, nothing major, no installing or messing about with any programs... Turned it on this morning, got to the log on screen, logged in and all the widgets are back to the standard Vista Set up, (a clock and a stocks and shares widget). Along with a fair few of my icons missing off the desktop and NOTHING in my documents, pictures or anything!

 

I think ive had this before and my fix was, turn it off and on and all was good, so ive done that and all of a sudden as I log on the small diagbox pops up in the top left hand corner 'setting up desktop, setting up personalized settings' and low and behold I all of a sudden have a brand new computer thats completly stock, apart from things like firefox and some other programs still here, but they have all lost their memory, passwords etc.

 

I can still get all my documents and files it seems to be a User Account fault, but there are no errors or messages coming up and the computer is running shit hot fast?


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#2 Matty.N

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Posted 08 February 2015 - 01:51 PM

http://windows.micro...indows-7-custom This is the best option to fix it, nothing but issues with that OS.



#3 Magz

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Posted 08 February 2015 - 09:26 PM

Hi Cardie,

 

Sounds like the good old Win7/Vista "temporary profile" issue to me. Basically the system thinks there's an issue with your profile and logs you on with a temporary one instead.

 

It needs a kick in the registry to sort this out.

 

Rather than go through the steps here, it's best to follow the official guide here:

 

http://support.micro...2?wa=wsignin1.0

 

Good luck!!



#4 Magz

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Posted 08 February 2015 - 09:40 PM

Hangon, I just read that guide and it's bollocks...

 

Don't do that, just do this...

 

Open the registry editor (Start, Run Regedit - OK)

 

Navigate down to HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows NY\current version\Profile List

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Just in case, it's worth backing up this part of the registry first. Right click on Profile List and click export to save it to a file.

 

You'll see that one of the keys has a .bak extension on it alongside another that does not. When you select the .bak extension one, the path to your normal profile will appear on the left hand pane under ProfileImagePath.

 

Rename the one without the .bak to something else and then take the .bak part off the name of the one which has that extension on it. Essentially, swapping the 2 around.

 

Reboot and you should be sorted...


Edit - ProfileImagePath is in the right hand pane - sorry long day...



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Posted 09 February 2015 - 01:04 AM

 

Hangon, I just read that guide and it's bollocks...

 

Don't do that, just do this...

 

Open the registry editor (Start, Run Regedit - OK)

 

Navigate down to HKLM\software\Microsoft\Windows NY\current version\Profile List

p

Just in case, it's worth backing up this part of the registry first. Right click on Profile List and click export to save it to a file.

 

You'll see that one of the keys has a .bak extension on it alongside another that does not. When you select the .bak extension one, the path to your normal profile will appear on the left hand pane under ProfileImagePath.

 

Rename the one without the .bak to something else and then take the .bak part off the name of the one which has that extension on it. Essentially, swapping the 2 around.

 

Reboot and you should be sorted...

 

Edit - ProfileImagePath is in the right hand pane - sorry long day...

this is the way to go it happens to my laptop all the time its mainly because of malware it happens as my lappy is for getting torrents of the piratebay proxys with all their bullshit popups and a few dodgy torenets


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#6 Tsukasa

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 11:31 AM

I hated Vista, I had nothing but problems with it and upgraded to Windows 7, and now I'm running 8.1 (its not as bad as people say)  But yeah, Vista has tons of issues.



#7 strider

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Posted 22 February 2015 - 12:44 PM

Vista for me was so bad, that I ended up migrating to Linux. So at least that some good came from Vista I suppose.

 

I've since forgiven Microsoft and use their goods from time to time, and actually quite looking forward to Windows 10 from what I've read.






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