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Windows 7 starting with a temporary profile

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Category: ForensiT Support
Forum Name: Move Computer
Forum Description: User Profile Transfer Wizard questions, suggestions, comments and bug reports
URL: https://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=898
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Topic: Windows 7 starting with a temporary profile

Posted By: penta
Subject: Windows 7 starting with a temporary profile
Date Posted: 31 May 2013 at 3:23am

Hi,
yesterday I had to move 3 computers (XP to W7).
I planned to use my brand new copy of Transwiz Professional, but all 3 machines gave the same problem: the OS started with a temporary profile.

The moving process returned no errors.

Nothing in the manual or in the forum.
Am I the only that have experienced this problem?

Thank you.

--
Nicola

Replies:

Posted By: Support
Date Posted: 31 May 2013 at 9:47am

Hi Nicola,

We sometimes see this with User Profile Wizard, but I don't recall anyone reporting the problem with Transwiz. Are you rebooting the machine before trying to log on?

If Windows cannot load a profile and has to use a TEMP profile, it will always write an error to the Application event log on the machine, so you need to check there to see what the reason is.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2013 at 7:38am

This happened to me too - I was transferring the profile, and only logging off and not restarting. You must restart straight after the profile has completed transfer - Perhaps a window telling you this could be added to the next version?

You must restart after every profile addition, or things get quite messed up.