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

Hey there,

So I also currently have this problen, occurred when I had to force restart computer, I tried the steps taken and it still has me logging in as a Temporary user. Preferably, I don't want to resort to an OS reinstall

Current situation is what happens at Step 13 (have 2 SID, one with .bak and one without .bak)

So if you have any help, I'd be glad to get it

Hi Brink,

I also probably should have mentioned this before, but its the main Administrator account that's having this problem, not a local account.

It's also linked to a Microsoft account, so not sure if that will affect whether your solution will work.
Also, I was trying it from the TEMP Profile, which again, not sure if it will affect the solution

daryl (currently the .bak) is the profile I want to get back and TEMP.LAPTOP (current account) is the temporary account

In the event I do need to create a new account, how would I do it so that the account has the highest privileges like the main profile. I do have another account that also has administrator status, but it cannot access the files from daryl since it doesn't have the highest privileges.

Hi Brink,

Yes I did.

- I deleted the 1001 (TEMP)
- Then I renamed the 1001.bak by removing the .bak from 1001.bak
- Since the Pathing was already set to daryl as shown in the third screenshot, just in case, copied the Pathing that C drive uses--> C:\Users\daryl
- Then i set the state of 1001 (what got renamed) to 0 (with the Hex option selected)
- Closed regedit from the File menu
- Restarted computer
- Nothing changed


I did also check the Event Logs and this is what it says for the 1511
Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

The other Error I wasn't sure was related is 1502
Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile.
DETAIL - An I/O operation initiated by the registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry.

Would you recommend a reinstall of Windows 10 as an alternate solution? Or another guide on what would be the best solution ?

Or just creating another account, copying everything over, and abandoning the old account?

Hi Brink,

Yeah, for now at least until I can get a permanent fix, I made a new account and currently copying files from the old account over to the new one.

Is there a way to transfer super user privileges from one account to another?