Hi,

I have a user that was using a mandatory profile, yesterday the user
reported a problem when logging in, the user was getting:-

"Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
default profile for the system.
DETAIL - The configuration registry database is corrupt."

There are 3 other machines that log on using the same username & profile,
and none of them were getting the error. So I logged on to this machine as
administrator, and deleted the user account from the PC, and removed the
users profile.

I then restarted, and logged back on as admin, added to users domain account
to the local machine again, made sure the profile directory was .man and the
ntuser.dat was ntuser.man, and that the users profile pointed to this
location in AD.

I then logged off, then back on as the user. The error about the
configuration registry database being corrupt has gone, however if you look
at the user profile in my computer, it says 'Local' not 'Roaming' or
'Mandatory'.

Can anyone tell me why? The other 3 machines work ok, just this one being a
pain!

Cheers

Ben

Hi Ben:

The resolution is:
1. Move the desired files out of the corrupt C:\Documents and
Settings\Username
folder.
2. Then use User Accounts in the Control Panel to delete the corrupt user
profile.

3. Create a new profile.
4. Assign appropriate permissions and log out.
5. Log back into the new user accout.


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"Ben Blackmore" wrote in message
news:40222840$0$3933$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a user that was using a mandatory profile, yesterday the user
> reported a problem when logging in, the user was getting:-
>
> "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
> default profile for the system.
> DETAIL - The configuration registry database is corrupt."
>
> There are 3 other machines that log on using the same username & profile,
> and none of them were getting the error. So I logged on to this machine as
> administrator, and deleted the user account from the PC, and removed the
> users profile.
>
> I then restarted, and logged back on as admin, added to users domain
account
> to the local machine again, made sure the profile directory was .man and
the
> ntuser.dat was ntuser.man, and that the users profile pointed to this
> location in AD.
>
> I then logged off, then back on as the user. The error about the
> configuration registry database being corrupt has gone, however if you
look
> at the user profile in my computer, it says 'Local' not 'Roaming' or
> 'Mandatory'.
>
> Can anyone tell me why? The other 3 machines work ok, just this one being
a
> pain!
>
> Cheers
>
> Ben
>
>