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Hi Carl,

Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have to copy the account data to a new user account.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user profile.

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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Is there a way to repair a corrupt local profile on an XP system\

Thanks

Carl
 
Ramesh

What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.

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Gerry
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Hi Gerry,

Good question! Haven't faced that situation before, but if that happens (should be a rare thing to occur since the OS does not write to the Default User profile.) In case that happens, I would look into the %windir%\repair folder for a fresh NTUSER.DAT, created when installing Windows.

Interesting! Perhaps you can send it via PM if you don't want to post it here.

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Ramesh

What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.

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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Ramesh

It is not my problem. It cropped up yesterday in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain and there are few reports on
the problem. I just thought it is the type of problem you enjoy.

Post 6 in this thread seems to deal with your problem but it requires
some computing skills which might deter me from taking on the task:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Copy-Admin-profile-to-Default-user-t64605.html

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Gerry
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Ramesh said:
Hi Gerry,

Good question! Haven't faced that situation before, but if that
happens (should be a rare thing to occur since the OS does not write
to the Default User profile.) In case that happens, I would look into
the %windir%\repair folder for a fresh NTUSER.DAT, created when
installing Windows.

Interesting! Perhaps you can send it via PM if you don't want to post
it here.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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Ramesh

What about a corrupt Default User Profile? Researching that yesterday
only found one complicated solution which I was hesitant to suggest.


Ramesh said:
Hi Carl,

Nothing much can be done about user profile corruption. You may have
to copy the account data to a new user account.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in
Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151

Per-user customizations are not carried forward to the new user
profile.
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You can simply copy the All Users and Default User profiles from any
other Windows XP installation to replace the corrupt ones on another
machine.

John
 
Yes. That would work. Also make sure that the %systemdrive% and %windir% locations are same in the other XP system (where you're copying from) as well. However, I would first look at the %windir%\repair folder for a replacement copy.

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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You can simply copy the All Users and Default User profiles from any
other Windows XP installation to replace the corrupt ones on another
machine.

John
 
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