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

Where exactly can i find the "C:\Users\<username>" folder?

Oh I found my account folder with everything inside, I restarted and now I got a new account called : C:\Users\Yusuf.DESKTOP-P91K711

Everything is back to normal. Thankyou really really much for helping me out and thanks for responding so fast! Have a nice day!

Hi! Thanks very much for this useful thread. This problem has just occurred to me. I've followed the instructions for looking in the registry, and I've actually found three keys which are an SID key with a .bak extension. Of these three:

• one has no corresponding key with the same value without the .bak extension
• one has the ProfileImagePath value set to my profile path, C:\Users\Mike
• one has it set to C:\Users\UpdatusUser

I'm going with assumption that I should use the one with my own profile path in. However, I'm a bit concerned. The fix description says:

This option will delete the user profile of the user account getting the temporary profile error to reset and rebuild the user's profile and settings by creating a new profile folder to fix this error.

Does this mean that all the files in my profile path will be deleted? Will I lose my Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc? Will I have to painstakingly back them all up before I do the fix, and then restore them all afterwards?

I'd be really grateful if you could clarify this for me!

Thanks in advance.

Brink said:

Hello Mikey, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

You won't lose anything if you are able to have the correct path of your user profile for the ProfileImagePath value of the SID key that's for your account with .bak at the end.

OK, thanks for that. So when the description says "This option will delete the user profile of the user account" - it doesn't mean that the contents of C:\Users\Mike will be deleted?

EDIT: And thanks for the welcome! This looks like a very helpful place :)