Windows 10: Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10

I changed the path to what it used to be and restarted. It took me back to a temp account. I've logged in as the Administrator and searched for my files...can't find them

 

Unless you deleted your "C:\Users\(UserName)" folder or deleted the account from within Settings, the folder and files should be there.

Do you see the folder there?

 

It is supposed to be \BriggsDesktop. Now it has \BriggsDesktop.BriggsDesktopPC. There is a C:\Windows.old\Users\BriggsDesktop folder, but it is empty

 

Do you have a "C:\Users\\BriggsDesktop.BriggsDesktopPC" folder with your files in it?

 

that folder does not have my files in it. I've manually looked as well as use the search function multiple times to try to find the files. I've done it in both my profile and the Administrator profile. Nothing shows up

 

Justin,

Did you do anything that could have deleted the user folders?

 

apparently something I did deleted the folders. However, I could see them before I did step 8 and could not see them after. I'm running recuva now and it seems to have found at least some of the files

 

I reinstalled Windows two days ago, and I just got another temporary profile this morning. (I had been getting them for about two months.) There's no ".bak" SID key, and the ProfileImagePath is correct, so I'm not sure whether I should go ahead with step 9 or look for another cause of the problem.

Edit: This was the only such incident since I reinstalled W10, so the past incident and other issues probably resulted from upgrading from 8.1 as opposed to starting from scratch.

 

Hello Greg, *Smile

Did you do or install anything before this happened?

Yes, you could delete the SID key to have a new user profile and folder created for the account.

 

The only things I can think of with the right timing would be the task I created to launch SpeedFan at startup, and shortcuts to a text file and a batch file which I added to the startup folder.

 

Heyo,

After Following steps nine and 10, I found that I'm still in the temporary account. Moreover, my start menu isn't working either now! I'm not entirely certain about what I could have done wrong, as the two files I deleted are still gone. Ideas?

 

Hello Hunter, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you have a SID key for your account under the ProfileList key, make sure that the ProfileImagePath value has the correct full path of your user profile folder, then restart the computer to see if that may help.

If this still doesn't help, then you could also try doing a system restore using a restore point dated before you started getting the temp. profile error.

System Restore Windows 10

 

I had changed the folder names under users right after installation to keep it tidier. Obviously the PC liked the shortened names better . Lightbulb went off on step 8. Changed them back and sorted it out. Thanks/

 

You're most welcome Larkspur, and welcome to Ten Forums. I'm glad it could help. *Smile

 

Unfortunately, I no longer have the two SIDs that the fix deals with, since I deleted the two while following step nine. It occurs to me that I may have deleted the incorrect files. In any case, this is what I have now...




As for the system restore, it says that I haven't got any points to restore to, so I guess that's out.