[Hot To] Fix - You have been signed with a temporary profile
Windows is a very weird operating system. All the time it comes with some new, annoying and strange issues. So today we are going to see one such issue. Have you ever face a situation where you logged into your user account and you get this Pop-Up notification saying that
"You have been signed in with a temporary profile"? Which further says that,
On the top of that if you had any files saved on your desktop or my document, they all are vanished. Don't worry its not actully vanished. They are still there in the system. So without panicking follow the instructions in this video very carefully.
"You can't access your files, and files created in this profile will be deleted when you sign out. To fix this, sign out and try signing in later. Pleaes see the event log for details or contact your system administrator."
Clearly None of the suggestions from the notification is going to work and If you avoid this and continue working with this temporary profile, then beware, the data you save on the desktop or mydocument, will be deleted once you are logged out. Because its a temporary profile. So this issue occurs when the User Profile of the account is corrupted from the system.
In order to resolve this issue. Follow the steps shown in this video.
So first of all, log into the another Administrator account if you have created on the system. If not, you can enable the Built-In-Administrator account. You can do that easily by watching this video.
SIDs or Security Identifiers are unique for each user account. So this SID is the uniqe identification for my user account.
Now go to the Registry Editor. For that Go to the run command and type REGEDIT and hit enter. Now on the right hand side select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click on find. Type "ProfileList" and hit Find Next. It will search this key through whole registry editor. You can expand the following path and find this Key manually.
Once you find the ProfileList key, you will find multiple SIDs if you expand it. Each one associated with different user account. So our SID is ending with 1001. Lets find out if its present? Yes its there. And you can see the duplicate entry is also there with the extension .bak.
You can identify the user account associated with each SIDs by selecting any SID and on the right hand side pan, find the entry "ProfileImagePath" whose value shows the user account name associated with it. This is the user account Administrator in which I am currently logged in. Like wise, if you select the key, ending with .bak you can see the profile associated with it is my real account and the another same key is associated with profile named TEMP.
This is the user account which is causing the issue. Each time I am trying to log in, i am getting logged into this TEMP profile and getting that pop up notification and am not able to see any files on my desktop or mydocs.
So you might be wondering where are my files? For that go to C Drive. Users and select your real user account. In my case. Its this one. Go into that and go to Desktop. There it is. All the files are there. Same for MyDocuments and Downloads.
Now I hope the situation is pretty clear for you. Let me summerize it for you. This is my real account with this name. I am trying to login to this account. But due to some fault the SID for this account has been changed with the extension .bak. And one same SID has been created which is associated with the user account TEMP. This one. So each time when I logged into to my user account, it fails to recognize SID associated with my user account and then logged into that Temp account.
So in order to resolve this issue. We will first take backup of my user account to some other drive or external USB. I have already done that. This is just a precaution step and now I am going to delete the SID associated with TEMP profile. Rename the real profile and remove .bak extension.
Sometimes, the profile name associated with this .bak account which is your real account also gets changed. So in that case, after renaming this SID by removing .bak, also rename the profile name from here. Just double click on ProfileImagePath and change it to your real user account. I am not going to do that, because in my case it has not been changed.
Now close the registry editor and restart the system...
Login to your user account. You will be able to see your files on your desktop now. And that pop up wont appear again.
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