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Thread ID: 127447	2012-10-23 08:52:00	Windows 7 keeps logging in temp profile	Geek4414 (12000)	Press F1

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1308303	2012-10-23 08:52:00	Have a strange problem, a Windows 7 PC keeps logging in with a temporary profile. There was only one profile on this PC. I have since created a second profile, so I can log in and backup the content of the corrupted profile. Created a new profile from scratch and deleted old one, it worked for a few days and then happened again. Did a restore to factory default and again, it worked fine for a few days and acted up again. Discovered that after running scandisk, we can log in to the profile normally, well, for a short while. Read quite a number of forums on the net and appears LOTs of people are having similar issue. Someone suggested some failed Windows update cause this sort of problem, it is "possbily" true ... Did a scandisk and logged in normally, did a bunch of updates and now reverted back to temp profile. Grrrrr. Running scandisk again now, but always get stuck at 11% for ages. These are some of the links that I have read ... blog.mpecsinc.ca www.vistax64.com windows.microsoft.com I already ran lots of hardware test too, ran SeaTool and a few other disk scanning utilities, all cleared. Did memtest and that was cleared also. So not sure if it is hardware related or just Windows 7 being silly. Anyone else got this problem?	Geek4414 (12000)
1308304	2012-10-23 09:17:00	Seen it happen on Two Laptops this month after returning the Laptops back to the owners - BOTH were HP's, same model. :2cents:Theory: I'm thinking that the images may somehow have been corrupted. Places like HP do mass images, not regular single installs on each PC. Have not seen the problem on other PC's. "Maybe" its another HP stuff up/shortcut like the XP sp3 upgrade balls up and AMD CPU's Told the people call me back if it carries on - I'll be wiping the HP image and loading in W7 from fresh, both were working fine on returning (new Laptops) the problem started a few days after, strangely 1 day apart.	wainuitech (129)
1308305	2012-10-23 10:54:00	Guess what??!!! It is a HP PC, you may be right about a corrupted image. Had issues with loads of V6000 laptop before, but they were corrupted images, plus absolutely CRAP hardware, everyone one of the V6000 I have seen failed miserably. In fact, I managed to track down a page on HP USA web site that offered extended warranty for the series and used it to get motherboard replaced for $0. Back to this PC, strangely, this PC has been going fine for couple of months since they bought it and only started doing that out of the blue. It appears, like others complaining of the same problem on the net, once it started , it keeps happening. A number of people seem to imply its a Windows 7 fault; but I must say, this is the first time I come across it, have used Windows7 on numerous computers for the past few years. I did have a slightly different problem with another Win7Pro HP PC. The PC sat at the Welcome screen after you log in, the hard drive light keeps flashing and it sat there all night; had to hard reset. Fixed that one by turning off all non-essential auto-start apps/services and turn some of them back on one by one. It hasn't done it again since, still don't know what was stopping it from logging in properly. That particular PC has other issues and has been reloaded from factory image, so may be another corrupted image?? Seen it happen on Two Laptops this month after returning the Laptops back to the owners - BOTH were HP's, same model. :2cents:Theory: I'm thinking that the images may somehow have been corrupted. Places like HP do mass images, not regular single installs on each PC. Have not seen the problem on other PC's. "Maybe" its another HP stuff up/shortcut like the XP sp3 upgrade balls up and AMD CPU's Told the people call me back if it carries on - I'll be wiping the HP image and loading in W7 from fresh, both were working fine on returning (new Laptops) the problem started a few days after, strangely 1 day apart.	Geek4414 (12000)
1308306	2012-10-23 20:20:00	As i mentioned, Only a theory. :) Seems that all the problems I've seen with Laptops/PC's relating to these sorts of things are HP's :waughh: Do fresh installs from scratch and the problem goes away.	wainuitech (129)
1308307	2012-10-24 00:13:00	Still got logged into a temp profile last night after ScanDisk ran for hours, Grrrr Might just have to do a fresh install. >_< As i mentioned, Only a theory. :) Seems that all the problems I've seen with Laptops/PC's relating to these sorts of things are HP's :waughh: Do fresh installs from scratch and the problem goes away.	Geek4414 (12000)
1308308	2012-10-26 01:43:00	I would imagine something is corrupting the user hive, and therefore the user account is unable to open the user.dat and the associated profile......disk issues, or maybe some software you have scan or whatever in the background...especially as you said it keeps happening with fresh profiles.	SolMiester (139)
1308309	2012-11-02 12:11:00	I would imagine something is corrupting the user hive, and therefore the user account is unable to open the user.dat and the associated profile......disk issues, or maybe some software you have scan or whatever in the background...especially as you said it keeps happening with fresh profiles. I suspect it is more than just the registry hive getting corrupted, as chkdsk seems to get stuck at certain percentage (I think 61%) for eons and took all night to finish. I would have thought its more likely to be a disk issue, but all the disk scan utilities I tried didn't pick up any surface defects. Finally bit the bullet and reformatted today and reloaded from a Windows7 install DVD instead of from the factory image, all seems well so far, but will have to wait and see.	Geek4414 (12000)
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