Fix Temporary Profile in Windows XP

How to resolve this problem

1.  Log off the computer and login with another account that has Administrative priviledges.

2.  Go to the system drive (may be C:) and open the document and settings you will see profile name like “TEMP” or [your login name].000 {where the 000 represents the addition which is placed on to the new temp profile if you are in a domain} new profile that was created.

3.  Go to start->Run and type “Regedit” press enter. This command will open windows registry editor.

4. From registry editor, Go to the following path.

5.  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

6.  Here you’ll see a list of Profile GUIDs. Click on each one and find your original profile name. The GUID Key will be renamed with .bak on the end and you’ll find that there is another Profile GUID Key with the same GUID, that is the replacement, delete it (don’t delete the .bak version. Now that the replacement Profile GUID key is deleted, or if you prefer – renamed with .new, you can now rename the .bak (original profile GUID) so the you only remove the .bak and hit the Enter key. Next, go into this GUID key and you’ll notice that the last DWORD value “State” is set to “8100″, remove the “8″ from the beginning so that the value is “100″.
Exit out of the registry editor.

7.  Restart the computer and login with the account you fixed.