Rebuilding a profile in windows xp

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Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. Friday, October 21, PM. Hope it helps! Wednesday, October 26, PM. The best way to do this is by modifying a key in the registry. It works in a similar way to rebuilding a profile in Windows XP.

Monday, February 13, AM. This link is 'Not Found ', has it moved? Thursday, October 11, AM. Mike Erickson. Monday, March 3, PM. Mike Erickson - merickson ksn. You may also notice all the user documents, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and. NET settings missing. The solution recommended in the following Knowledgebase article will resolve the issue: However, the solution recommended in the above article suggests to copy the settings manually.

Alternatively, you can follow the below solution: Create a new user account: Go to Control Panel. Click User Accounts tool. Select the Create A New Account link. Give the account a name and click Next. Click Create Account button. Logoff from the current account, and login with the new account. This will create a user profile for the new account. When the user profile creation procedure is complete log Off from the account without doing any other modifications.

If not, you're using NTFS which has some special permissions set to the folder. Not to worry, we'll update the permissions.

Right click on the System Volume Information folder and choose Properties from the popup menu. Then click on the Security tab. Click the Add button and in the Enter the object names to select box, type in your Windows logon name you can get this by clicking on the Start button - it'll be at the top of the Start menu.

Click OK twice. You should be able to access the folder now. You'll probably need to click on the View menu and then Details in Windows Explorer to see when the folders were created. Open up the next newest folder. There should be a few folders inside starting with RP. The RP folders contain the actual system restore points. If you need to, change the View to Details again and figure out which folder contains the most upto-date profile - without being the damaged one!

We need to go back to the repair console and swap these files for the repair ones we swapped earlier. Once it's done, you're a reboot away from having your system back! So lets get on with it Boot from the CD again and wait til you return to the option menu. Again, press 'R' to start the recovery console.