Windows 10: PC switched me to a temporary user profile

I upgraded to Windows 10 a few weeks ago and everything has been fine up to now. However, last night when I turned on my pc, everything froze completely and I had to manually power off. After I started the pc back up, I was switched over to a temporary user profile. I have no access to any of my files. I've read forum after forum and have tried just about everything to fix this problem. I've been able to locate the corrupted file and have tried to rename it so that the pc will stop recognizing it and go back to my correct profile. However, every time I try to rename, it says "The Registry Editor cannot rename - Error while renaming key." I've tried going into permissions, clicking advanced and clicking "Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object." When I click okay, it says "Registry Editor could not set security in the key selected or some of its subkeys." Can anyone either help me out with renaming the corrupted file or perhaps give me a better way to get out of the temporary user profile?

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Windows 10...maybe later (not possible to relocate you user profile folder)

I also apreciated your help. I was thinking about doing it, but i don't know if my profile will remain. If i upgrade now, im afraid that windows will give me a temporary user profile as it did before. I couldn't get rid of that temporary profile, everytime
i restarted the PC, it adds another temporary user profile, so when i was about to decide to downgrade to Win 7, i have (TEMP.Username-PC, TEMP.Username-PC 001, TEMP.Username-PC 002, and so on) on my users folder. So if i did what you suggested, how will i
get rid of this temporary user profile (so my changes could take effect and allow me to relocate all folders)? May you help me with that?

 

How do I fix-You have been logged in with a temporary profile

Windows logs you into a temporary profile when your own user account has become corrupted to the point where it is no longer usable.

The purpose of the temporary profile is to give you the opportunity to create a new user account for yourself. You can't use a temporary profile as a user account. Well, you can, actually, but being temporary, none of the changes you make from a temporary
file will be kept after a reboot.

Use the temporary profile to switch to a user account with Administrator permissions. In the Administrator account, create a new Standard User account and - this is critical - move all your personal files from your old, corrupted user account (documents,
pictures, videos, etc.) to the new user account.

Once you are sure that there's nothing left in your old user account that's of any value to you, you can delete the old user account. and continue on with your new user account.

 

Hello Buonafortuna, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Depending on exactly what error message you got, you might see if the tutorial below that matches may help.

You've been signed in with a temporary profile - Fix

User Profile Service failed the sign-in - Fix in Windows 8

 

Thanks for the welcome! I am able to get to the corrupted file, but when following through with the steps to delete or rename the file, the error message occurs. The only thing I haven't tried doing is a system restore. I really don't want to do that because it will delete a lot of apps and security that I spent hours downloading into my pc.

 

Which tutorial is for your error?

It sounds like you may not be using an administrator account.

If you don't have another administrator account, then you'll need to enable and use the built-in Administrator.

 

I'm having trouble following through with the first tutorial. I am logged in as administrator - I've double checked that.

 

No problem. What step are you having a problem at, and what issue are you having? *Smile

 

I'm having trouble with step 7 where I delete or even just rename the corrupted file. When I try to delete or rename, I get the error message that says "Registry Editor cannot delete/rename - Error while deleting/renaming key." I've tried to go in and change the permission to give me full access to editing that key, but I then get an error message that says "Registry Editor could not set security in the key selected or some of its subkeys."

 

Interesting. Are you logged in to another administrator account other than the temporary one?

As a test, enable and sign in to the built-in Administrator account to see if you may be able to do the tutorial in it.

 

Yes, I was able to switch over to the built-in administrator. I then switched back to my administrator and it still will not let me rename or delete the corrupted file.

 

Did you try doing the tutorial while only signed in to the built-in Administrator account?

 

When I signed into the built-in administrator, a welcome screen came up and it took a few minutes downloading apps. I didn't see any tutorial - where would that be?

 

It'll be the same tutorial below, but do the steps while signed in to your built-in Administrator account. *Smile

You've been signed in with a temporary profile - Fix

 

I'm sorry - I misunderstood. Yes, I tried following through those steps, and the Registry Editor will still not let me rename/delete or change the security for that key.