lost profile - please help !

David Banks

Hi

As you will guess from the rest of this post I am a bit of a computer
dinosaur, so please bear with me !

I stupidly turned my PC off by pressing the button on the base unit. When I
turned it on again I clicked on my name on the welcome screen as usual. The
following message then came up:

"Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you on with the default
profile for the system.
DETAIL - the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format"

I have no idea what this means ! All my favourites, background etc has been
lost !

The other profile on the welcome screen works fine.

I use windows XP.

Any advice very gratefully received.

--
David

Pegasus \(MVP\)

"David Banks" <DavidBanks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2F2DACCA-3903-4992-9EC2-4F9218719619@microsoft.com...
>
> Hi
>
> As you will guess from the rest of this post I am a bit of a computer
> dinosaur, so please bear with me !
>
> I stupidly turned my PC off by pressing the button on the base unit. When
> I
> turned it on again I clicked on my name on the welcome screen as usual.
> The
> following message then came up:
>
> "Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you on with the
> default
> profile for the system.
> DETAIL - the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
> registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format"
>
> I have no idea what this means ! All my favourites, background etc has
> been
> lost !
>
> The other profile on the welcome screen works fine.
>
> I use windows XP.
>
> Any advice very gratefully received.
>
> --
> David

Your best bet is to use System Restore to return Windows to
the its condition before this incident.

David Banks

Thanks - how do I do that please ?
--
David


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "David Banks" <DavidBanks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2F2DACCA-3903-4992-9EC2-4F9218719619@microsoft.com...
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > As you will guess from the rest of this post I am a bit of a computer
> > dinosaur, so please bear with me !
> >
> > I stupidly turned my PC off by pressing the button on the base unit. When
> > I
> > turned it on again I clicked on my name on the welcome screen as usual.
> > The
> > following message then came up:
> >
> > "Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you on with the
> > default
> > profile for the system.
> > DETAIL - the system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
> > registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format"
> >
> > I have no idea what this means ! All my favourites, background etc has
> > been
> > lost !
> >
> > The other profile on the welcome screen works fine.
> >
> > I use windows XP.
> >
> > Any advice very gratefully received.
> >
> > --
> > David
>
> Your best bet is to use System Restore to return Windows to
> the its condition before this incident.
>
>
>

Pegasus \(MVP\)

"David Banks" <DavidBanks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37E49ACD-0043-49F1-8196-20818EC3A561@microsoft.com...
> Thanks - how do I do that please ?
> --
> David
>
Simple: Click Start / Help, then look for help on
System Restore. The explanation there is much
better than anything I could offer.

David Banks

Many thanks
--
David


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "David Banks" <DavidBanks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:37E49ACD-0043-49F1-8196-20818EC3A561@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks - how do I do that please ?
> > --
> > David
> >
> Simple: Click Start / Help, then look for help on
> System Restore. The explanation there is much
> better than anything I could offer.
>
>
>