User account not right

Posted August 17, 2008 · August 17, 2008

I have 5 user accounts on my Windows XP Home computer and they have all been

working fine until about a week ago. My sons account is now acting like it it

is a brand new account. He gets a USER ENVIRONMENT dialog box with the

following message..."Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible

cause of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local

profile..." The background screen went to a deafult background instead of the

picture he had up and none of his account connections are working. Any ideas

as to what file may be corrupt or what I might be able to do to get the

account working properly without deleting it? Thanks for any help you can

give.

Posted August 18, 2008 · August 18, 2008

Re: User account not right

Carl wrote:

> I have 5 user accounts on my Windows XP Home computer and they have all

> been working fine until about a week ago. My sons account is now acting

> like it it is a brand new account. He gets a USER ENVIRONMENT dialog box

> with the following message..."Windows cannot load the locally stored

> profile. Possible cause of this error include insufficient security rights

> or a corrupt local profile..." The background screen went to a deafult

> background instead of the picture he had up and none of his account

> connections are working. Any ideas as to what file may be corrupt or what

> I might be able to do to get the account working properly without deleting

> it? Thanks for any help you can give.

There is really nothing you can do to fix this. Create a new user account

for your son, copy his data over to it from the old account, make sure

everything is there, and then delete the old user account.

It never hurts to do a pro-active test of your hard drive at this point,

either. That way if it is starting to fail you'll have the time to replace

it easily. Download a diagnostic utility from the drive mftr.'s website,

burn to CD with third-party burning software (burn as an image, not as

data), boot with the media your created, and do a quick test.

Malke

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