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Windows XP Pro keeps creating users' a temporary profile.

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by cpl_p

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I'm an admin on an AD domain. When some of my users log on, Windows says it cant load their profile so it creates them a temporary profile. I would believe this to be a corrupt profile but it happens to them on more than one machine... but not all the time. There is no consistency with this error. We don't use roaming profiles so i don't understand why this would happen on multiple clients let alone so sporadically. Anyone come across this issue before?

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by jasonjd48

Ive seen this happen every so often in XP and Server 03, about half the time it is because quotas have been enabled but the user does not have a custom quota setup, and may be limited to a small default quota. Windows sees that the user profile exceeds the available space that user should have, and balks, loading a temporary profile.

Other instances have related to profile corruption, hard drive corruption or hard drive imminent failure.

by hsamad

we have had a couple of pcs exhibit the same frustrating issue. virus and spyware scans all come up clean. i delete all profiles. clean systems of cruft and create new profiles and about 4 days later the issue resurfaces again. the issue seems to be in the computer itself and not the profile because when i gave users another pc to work on the issue did not reooccur. dont know if this is related but i tried to run system restore and it was unable to complete and afterwards all system restore points were gone. we dont have limits on disk quotas setup. very limited info for this issue any help would be greatly appreciated.

by older mycroft

I've had XP Pro exhibit this behaviour on my own equipment. Couldn't figure it out or track down any underlying cause.

Then the hard drive reported SMART warnings and eventually failed.

This has happened twice - on each occasion the temp profiles happened before any warning of hard drive mortality.

by systemcheck

I just recently had this problem if it is happening after a new user was on the pc. Just restart the computer then log in.

by kenone

I agree with OM if it keeps occurring on one machine.
Other stuff I've seen cause this;
1. TOOLBARS! user installed and evil
2. Adware, spyware, viruses
3. Any install that was attempted and failed or cancelled.
4. Crap on the user's desktop
5. Corrupted files/crap in their "My Documents"
If it keeps happening to the same user I would suspect that user of trying to install something they're not allowed to install.

by 93961

This happens in my compoter too but it is not even in a domain. It is a home computer.
I searched much but there is no help. I simply restart my computer and login again and everything is back to normal and the temporary profile is deleted automatically.
I started using the UPHClean utilty and this occurence has decreased significantly.

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