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Scary Windows error: Failure to log in to profile, loading of temp profile

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This morning I had a scary experience -- when i woke up and sat down to start work, my pc was at the login screen and when i tried to log in as my normal user, my desktop layout was completely changed, none of my startup apps ran, etc.  Then I saw an innocuous message in the system tray saying that my user profile could not be loaded and so a temp profile was created and loaded instead.

While this may sound like no big deal, what windows is really saying is: Something went badly wrong with your user files/registry and they are now corrupt and i don't even know how to let you start working..  It's better than a complete hd crash, but not much more informative.

After trying a few fixes found on the web along these lines: http://www.techsuppo...rofile-in-windows-7/

None worked, and I had to RESTORE my last known good user profile from a restore point.

Thankfully:
  • The last good restore point was only a couple of days old.
  • Since I just got back into town i have worked on the pc very very little since then.
  • I also had a full backup before my trip out of town that I could (still can) restore from if need be.
  • None of my important documents are actually in my C drive user profile so not end of world.
  • I have online backup of my user profile stuff (crashplan).

But this reminds me:
  • A severe HD crash and/or loss of data can happen at ANY TIME with NO WARNING.  Backup, and do it redundantly.

And:
  • I still have no idea why this happened -- that scares me.  Normally I replace the hd on first hint of HD corruption, but this is an expensive SSD and i still don't know if this was an HD issue or not.

Anyway, just a warning.. I've never seen this error before and I hope to never see it again.



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