[How To] Fix – You Have Been Signed With a Temporary Profile | Windows 7, 8, 8.1
[Hot To] Fix – You have been signed with a temporary profile
Windows is a very weird operating system. All the time it comes with some new, annoying and strange issues. So today we are going to see one such issue. Have you ever face a situation where you logged into your user account and you get this Pop-Up notification saying that
“You have been signed in with a temporary profile”? Which further says that,
On the top of that if you had any files saved on your desktop or my document, they all are vanished. Don’t worry its not actully vanished. They are still there in the system. So without panicking follow the instructions in this video very carefully.
“You can’t access your files, and files created in this profile will be deleted when you sign out. To fix this, sign out and try signing in later. Pleaes see the event log for details or contact your system administrator.”
Clearly None of the suggestions from the notification is going to work and If you avoid this and continue working with this temporary profile, then beware, the data you save on the desktop or mydocument, will be deleted once you are logged out. Because its a temporary profile. So this issue occurs when the User Profile of the account is corrupted from the system.
In order to resolve this issue. Follow the steps shown in this video.
So first of all, log into the another Administrator account if you have created on the system. If not, you can enable the Built-In-Administrator account. You can do that easily by watching this video.
SIDs or Security Identifiers are unique for each user account. So this SID is the uniqe identification for my user account.
Now go to the Registry Editor. For that Go to the run command and type REGEDIT and hit enter. Now on the right hand side select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click on find. Type “ProfileList” and hit Find Next. It will search this key through whole registry editor. You can expand the following path and find this Key manually.
Once you find the ProfileList key, you will find multiple SIDs if you expand it. Each one associated with different user account. So our SID is ending with 1001. Lets find out if its present? Yes its there. And you can see the duplicate entry is also there with the extension .bak.
You can identify the user account associated with each SIDs by selecting any SID and on the right hand side pan, find the entry “ProfileImagePath” whose value shows the user account name associated with it. This is the user account Administrator in which I am currently logged in. Like wise, if you select the key, ending with .bak you can see the profile associated with it is my real account and the another same key is associated with profile named TEMP.
This is the user account which is causing the issue. Each time I am trying to log in, i am getting logged into this TEMP profile and getting that pop up notification and am not able to see any files on my desktop or mydocs.
So you might be wondering where are my files? For that go to C Drive. Users and select your real user account. In my case. Its this one. Go into that and go to Desktop. There it is. All the files are there. Same for MyDocuments and Downloads.
Now I hope the situation is pretty clear for you. Let me summerize it for you. This is my real account with this name. I am trying to login to this account. But due to some fault the SID for this account has been changed with the extension .bak. And one same SID has been created which is associated with the user account TEMP. This one. So each time when I logged into to my user account, it fails to recognize SID associated with my user account and then logged into that Temp account.
So in order to resolve this issue. We will first take backup of my user account to some other drive or external USB. I have already done that. This is just a precaution step and now I am going to delete the SID associated with TEMP profile. Rename the real profile and remove .bak extension.
Sometimes, the profile name associated with this .bak account which is your real account also gets changed. So in that case, after renaming this SID by removing .bak, also rename the profile name from here. Just double click on ProfileImagePath and change it to your real user account. I am not going to do that, because in my case it has not been changed.
Now close the registry editor and restart the system…
Login to your user account. You will be able to see your files on your desktop now. And that pop up wont appear again.
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Thank You very help-full.
Didnt work
Not working on my system
After doing all these steps it's still showing the same thing and there are 6 to 7 temporary files in my users folder because I done this more than once
Thank you. It works. 👍
By following this procedure do files on other drives get affected?
When logging back in, temp profile was created again. Still figuring out this issue.
I encrypted my PC windows 10 with cipher/e and now I can't decrypt it back to my previous account all my files are all hidden. Please I just everything to return back to normal please help me sir I beg you
In my pc it's showing in registry editor prohibit changing profile list1
Hi guys…So mine keep renaming back to the .bak, that is, it keeps creating and logging in with a temporary profile. Pls any solution to this?
Done everything but no resolve my problem….still computer is starting with temp profile
i hate windeows
WHY…do i get an "invalid Querry" when inputting info for 'GET SID'?
Please still temp
Your video is very informative, and thus , very helpful to me. Keep up with the good work. I thank you kindly.
Thank you so much…I thought I was over and you save me…Again thanks for this clear instructions
hello and what is your question? and the computer and my temporary user profile from the archive folder? and Microsoft Windows 8.1 and what is it, I don't know? and it doesn't work? repair with help with a temporary profile? and window preparation? and in a moment, check with my folder on the desktop?
I faced this problem over a year but i could not find the problem
Thanks to u…lots of love 💕😘
The method not worked for me. After completing the procedure as explained by you and after boot the same problem appears again and the file with the .bak extension appears again. I don't what to do.
Thank you so much, it worked.
Nothing worked for me…… Can't acess to annother account – can't creeate a new account
Also, i can't enable the Built-In-Administrator account ……
I got he message, that it is not conform with the password roules…..
I am on my end – and i guess, that i messed up a lot until now…..
Fake
whenever i load into the administrator acount the computer screen turns black
Pls my PC has just one profile and I tried doing this but it didn't change
So confusing
Thanks bro I needed this to help my grandma
Great turorial but it didn't work for me.
BRO IT HELPED ME TWO TIMES BECAUSE OF MY SISTER SHE DOENT SHUT IT DOWN
It didn't work for me 😭😞
Would like and share if only someone could help me with something: in my user the archives like Downloads, images, etc are missing. And instead says "appdata". Maybe that's the reason why… it doesn't fix it? Idk what to do…
Have try this.. but no positive result
I followed your steps , But again after restart it create Temporary account automatically
And .bak extension to my original account
It's was so useful one
Could you please help to fix this is there any another way that I can do
Well I made mistake without creating the administrator account I've done this and now there more than 3 TEMP files
The Run command also has to run as administrator or the Regedit should also run as administrator otherwise even after following the steps you will still run through the same issue.
Mine just makes a new temp profile every time
After deleting still it is creating temporary file everytime