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by dwaind

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After logging on to Windows 2000, I get the message
'user environmnet'-'windows cannot load your profile
because it may be corrutped, logging in a temp
profile.'
After looking in 'Docs & settings\myprofile' it
is named 'gerry.bak', my username is still in the
users & passwords, but not in the sys properties|
user profiles. Can my profile be restored including
the files that were there? Any possible reasons?

Thanks
Dwain

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by vinnyd

The only time I have seen this problem is when there was an error writing during saving the profile.

And like you have, there was a bak profile created.

That backup profile did have everything in it from the original profile when I saw that problem.

by shadoglare2

Usually when I see this it's either because the hard drive is absolutely full, or because for some reason the system account doesn't have write access to the hard drive.
Not sure about restoring the profile - if you've got a folder that still has the correct info in it, you might want to try going into the user profile settings and telling it to copy it into a new profile.

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