Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10  

Squidward said:

The old account has reappeared at sign in. It is the one loaded and in the middle of the screen. The new account is also there, in the lower left corner, and I have been able to sign in through that and use the computer.

But there was a new problem. When I tried to set up the default printer, I could not complete the process. I uninstalled numerous times and restarted until it did not appear to be present. The printer did not appear in the Devices and Printers window, and the old user account did not appear in the Registry ProfileList. Then I installed using the factory disk. It would proceed to the point where it appeared to be properly completed, but the printer icon was greyed out and would not print a document. When I went to the printer status it showed "offline." And when I click "see what's printing" there are numerous queued unprinted entries. After deleting or cancelling them, uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling, the same thing happens.

This is a problem because I cannot print from the computer to my printer and so am using a different computer whenever I may have to print.

I wonder if the old account is not causing this problem because last time I entered the old account there was a printer setup message behind the "You've been signed in with a temporary profile..." message. Next time I am at that computer I will try entering using the old account and try to confront the printer issue there. Does that seem like the right approach or is there something else I should try?.

Hello Squidward,

You definitely would want to solve the profile issue first.

I'm glad it was able to help @trchar, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Hello @JohnBW,

Anything you added to the desktop of the temp profile gets deleted each time it gets signed out of.

If you moved the files instead of copying them, they may be gone for good unless you have a backup at another location to restore from.

Is the original profile folder still there? If so, you might double check to see if the files may still be in it.

John,

Anything that was moved to the desktop of the temporary profile is most likely gone for good unless you have a backup to restore from.

Correct. The original profile folder would be the one the files were in before all this started or renamed. If the files haven't been deleted or moved, they should still be in the same location they were originally at other than the new name of the profile folder.

You can try and let Windows continue to search for them to see if it may be able to find their new location.

Candy pattison said:

Hi, once I got to step 7 I there was no option for profile list however I found the SID number (without .bak) under HKEY_USERS.
So I moved on to step 10, however there is nothing in the right pane.
Please help on how to resolve my issue.

Hello Candy, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Please go ahead and post screenshots of what you're seeing so we can be certain about what to recommend.