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How to Fix Corrupt Windows 7 Profile

If you have issues with corrupted profile on Windows 7 operating system, where your user is constantly logged on as temp profile, here’s what to do.

Restart your PC to release the locks on your Windows 7 profile.

Create additional account and add it to local administrators group

Log on with newly created administrative account.
Delete C:\Users\%username%
Delete C:\Users\TEMP
Delete the registry key matching your SID from
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList”.
Check the value “ProfileImagePath” to make sure you pick your own profile.

Restart once again and you should be able to logon normally with your Windows 7 profile.

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