Lost or Damaged User Profile Cause Data Loss in Windows Vista

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In Microsoft Windows Vista, the user profile is actually a record of data, which defines working environment of particular user. The record may include user data, applications settings, network connections, display settings, and other personal data. Sometimes, after logging into Windows Vista computer, you might encounter that any temporary profile has been loaded in place of current user’s profile. Thus, any changes you make your system are lost after logging off the system and it may also include data. The data loss is quite distressing situation and you need to go for Windows Data Recovery solutions to get your valuable data back.

In a practical scenario, you may come across below given error message when you start your Windows Vista-based computer:

“Your user profile was not loaded correctly! You have been logged on with a temporary profile.

Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Please see the event log for details or contact your administrator.”

After this error message, you may notice that some of your significant data are missing from the user account. In order to extract the lost data, you are required to fix the issue through windows data recovery.

Grounds of the problem:

This behavior of Microsoft Windows Vista generally occurs if your current user profile has been deleted accidentally from your system. The problem may also occur due to corruption to the user profile due to virus infection, operating system malfunction, and improper system shutdown.

Resolution:

Try out following things to sort out this problem-

Reboot your system and log in as a different user. The different user needs to be administrator.

Open Windows Explorer and then open C:/Users. Remove directory of the problematic profile and ‘Temp’ directory.

Run Vista registry editor and locate below registry subkey-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Find correct SID (Security Identifier) and remove it.

Exit registry editor and then reboot your system.

If the above method does not work or cause further damage due to improper registry editing, windows data recovery software are required to extract lost data. These applications are powerful enough to methodically scan the entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. With simple and rich graphical user interface, the Windows Recovery tools are completely easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most effective and powerful application to retrieve lost Windows data. The software recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is designed for Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.