Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error
When you try to login to Windows you receive the following error message “You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile” this means that your user account profile has been corrupted. When the user profile gets corrupted Windows will log you in with a temporary profile rather than the standard user profile.
Let’s see how to actually Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.
Before doing anything you must enable the built-in administrator account which will help you in troubleshooting:
1. Open the Command Prompt by clicking Start Menu --> All Programs --> Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt, and open it as an administrator. In Windows Vista and later versions of Window operating systems type cmd.exe into Start Screen or Start Menu, right-click on Cmd.exe, and open it as an administrator.
2. Type the following command and hit Enter:
3. Restart your PC and login to this new administrator account.
4. Open the Command Prompt.
5. Type the following command into Command Prompt and hit Enter:
6. Press Windows + R keys then type regedit.exe and hit Enter to open Registry Editor.
7. Navigate to the following registry key:
8. Under ProfileList, you will find the SID specific to a users profile. Using the the SID we noted find the correct SID of your profile.
9. Now you will find that there would be two SID’s with the same name, one with .bak extension and other without it.
10. Now right-click on the SID which doesn’t have .bak extension and select Delete.
11. Select SID with the .bak extension then double-click on ProfileImagePath string and change it’s value to C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME.
12. In the right pane of the SID key verify that the State DWORD is set with a value data of 0.
13. Next, right-click on SID with .bak extension and select Rename. Remove the .bak extension from the SID name and hit Enter.
14. Close Registry Editor and reboot your PC to save changes.
That’s it you have successfully Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.
Let’s see how to actually Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.
Before doing anything you must enable the built-in administrator account which will help you in troubleshooting:
1. Open the Command Prompt by clicking Start Menu --> All Programs --> Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt, and open it as an administrator. In Windows Vista and later versions of Window operating systems type cmd.exe into Start Screen or Start Menu, right-click on Cmd.exe, and open it as an administrator.
2. Type the following command and hit Enter:
Code:
net user administrator /active:yes Note
Once you’re done with the troubleshooting follow the above same steps then type “net user Administrator /active:no” in order to disable the built-in administrator account.
3. Restart your PC and login to this new administrator account.
4. Open the Command Prompt.
5. Type the following command into Command Prompt and hit Enter:
Code:
wmic useraccount where name='USERNAME' get sid Note
Replace USERNAME with your actual account username. Note down the output of the command into a seperate notepad file.
6. Press Windows + R keys then type regedit.exe and hit Enter to open Registry Editor.
7. Navigate to the following registry key:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList8. Under ProfileList, you will find the SID specific to a users profile. Using the the SID we noted find the correct SID of your profile.
9. Now you will find that there would be two SID’s with the same name, one with .bak extension and other without it.
10. Now right-click on the SID which doesn’t have .bak extension and select Delete.
11. Select SID with the .bak extension then double-click on ProfileImagePath string and change it’s value to C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME.
12. In the right pane of the SID key verify that the State DWORD is set with a value data of 0.
13. Next, right-click on SID with .bak extension and select Rename. Remove the .bak extension from the SID name and hit Enter.
14. Close Registry Editor and reboot your PC to save changes.
That’s it you have successfully Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.