When your PC for reasons unknown corrupts your user profile and you find when you login you are in a temp profile without your files, settings and programs then this is a simple fix:
- Download Windows Enabler from http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/speedload/Enabler.htm
- Right-Click “Windows Enabler.exe” and choose “Run As Administrator”
- Click the Notification Tray icon for Windows Enabler to turn Windows Enabler on.
- Open the System Properties applet and choose Advanced System Settings.
- Open the “User Profiles” dialog and click on the grayed out “Copy To…” button and it will become enabled.
- Copy the profile as you used to in XP and Vista.
- When completed. We need to update permissions on the registry key.
- Start –> Run –>regedt32 (Open the registry editor)
- Locate the profile key in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\
- Right click on the Key and choose “Permissions”
- Locate the User account that will use this profile and give Full Control
- Reboot