Help!! Windows cannot load my locally stored profile!

[LouiseDM]

I have Windows XP and I receive the following error when attempting to log in as the user:

Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Contact your network administrator.

DETAIL - An I/O operation initiated by the registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry.

I click OK and then get:
Windows cannot load the profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. No changes will be saved.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Please help!!

[Deancroft]

Erratic login driving me nuts - Windows cannot load the user's profile.....

Running XP on my machine which can pre installed and bundled with it. Sometimes (too often!!) when I log in at the Welcome page, I ge the message;

Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.

It then proceeds to count down 30 seconds unless you click ok.

Other times though, I just type in the password and heh ho, its fine. I have thought about creating another administrator, but then I lose all the setting I previously had and to be honest I'm nervous about copying directory tree's about as I not sure I should be doing that.

Can anyone help us with this?

[laurentio]

CAUSE
This problem has several common causes. The following are the most relevant causal scenarios.

• Permissions on the local %system root%\Profiles have been modified. The EVERYONE group needs Full Control to load the profile.
• Lack of resources. If the system partition is low on space, or the registry size limit has been exceeded, the profile can fail to load.
• The profile is corrupted. Either the local Ntuser.dat (or .man) or the roaming copy of Ntuser.dat is corrupted. When this occurs, there is usually an event indicating a RegLoadKey failure.

to DeanCroft:

Delete ntuser.dat in your profile, windows will recreate it or search for ntuser.man & rename it to ntuser.dat if you don't pick up ntuser.man, then log in with safe mode & networking as administrator, rename the corrupt profile, then, log in again as yourself so that a new profile is created.

to LousieDM:

In hkey_Local_machine\software\microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

You will find an S-1-5 key for every domain login that ever graced your computer. You'll find the one that is corrupted and not re-building itself. Delete it (and for good measure any others you are no longer using).

Reboot because the login service will fail.

Log-in the user with his/her domain credentials.

to Both of you:

System Restore to an older working point.