Computer help! Users logging in as temporary account!

9/15/2014 | raybbr

[raybbr]

I found some info on this on MS's site. I checked the registry entries and this:

khan_abyss replied on February 11, 2013

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In reply to DiagoFox's post on November 26, 2012

Actually, I JUST had this issue myself. I had to clone my partition to a new hard drive and this first messed up my c <-> d drive lettering. After a few hours to fix this, I started to have this same issue with the TEMP profile. I searched around within the Registry and found an entry here;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

If you look within one of the sub-keys within that (on mine it was called 5-1-5-21-557812858-3650550099-3850275229-1001), you will find a key called 'ProfileImagePath'. Ensure that key is pointing to the right directory. Once I pointed it to the right hdd, my TEMP profile issue was fixed.

Hope this helps you out.

I went to the same path and found my profile looked something like this:
5-1-5-21-557812858-3650550099-3850275229-1001.bak
I removed the .bak and logged in my user account,no problem!
Hope this helps someone

From here helped me a bit.

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I found the profile keys that had a .bak extension, deleted them and resigned in to each account. That created the new users as shown in the shot below:

It created new folders.

I DID run MS's scanner and MS Security essentials.

The data is still there but the user's profile points to the folders with the .OfficePC8 name. To get the data the user must find the folder without that extension.

[Ouderkirk]

I agree with cynwoody.

Wipe it and start over. THere is nothing like a fresh intall of an OS. Then you can scan your files on at a time as you restore them.

After you have the system restored to a state that you would be happy to return to, I use Norton Ghost to create an image of the OS and the complete file system to a removable source that you can store away for retrieval.

Then all of this poking and probing for malware and whatever comes to screeching halt. Keep your work on a NAS. That, you can scan and clean without it corrupting your system again.

Get infected, insert the Ghost bootable media, wipe and restore and you’re done. Good as new. Your NAS files reappear at reconnection.

[TexasGator]

“I did? Didn’t think I’d said that. No, the problem came after the scan.”

Yes. In your first sentence.

“. I ran a complete scan and quarantined then removed all the malware found. “

[rarestia]

Try this:

You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message

[mmichaels1970]

I went to the same path and found my profile looked something like this: 5-1-5-21-557812858-3650550099-3850275229-1001.bak I removed the .bak and logged in my user account,no problem!

Nice job! I've been in the same registry hive several times due to malware issues. It's been an issue since Win XP.

It can really be a bugger to fix. Sometimes even pointing the profile path to the correct location won't work. If files within the profile itself (like ntuser or some other protected file) are corrupt, a temp profile will be created even with the correct profile path specified.