If you’re logging in and continually getting the “You are using a temporary Profile..” message then it is likely your profile registry key has become corrupted.

Here’s how to fix the profile registry key

• - Open up the registry editor: press the Start key and type regedit. You’ll see it turn up in the menu, click on it or press enter.
• - Browse to the following register folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
• - The folders under that will be all numbers, you may have to drag the windows divider to the right to see the full numbers.
• - Chances are you will see two sets of number that are the same, except one has “.bak” at the end. That’s the one you want.
• - Rename the one that has no extension and add “.old” to the end of it.
• - Now rename the .bak one and remove the “.bak”.
• - Logout
• - Log back in

You should no longer received the temporary profile error message.

Note: If you do, then you have more serious issues and your first step now should be to backup whatever you can. If possible login to this computer with a different administrator account and then browse to the User folder for your login and copy the Desktop, Favorites, Documents, AppData, and any other folders you need.

Time to call a technician