I had to remove my machine from the domain and reinsert it into a new domain with the same name. This ought to be straight forward, it however proved to be a nightmare 😐 No matter what I did the above error was presented to me again and again “You have been logged on with a temporary profile” even after deleting the profile under c:\users\<profilename> the error kept coming.
Well a bit of googling came up with the solution (intended for Vista but works for Win7 also);
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947242
To resolve this problem, follow these steps:
- Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem.
- Back up all data in the current user’s profile folder if the profile folder still exists, and then delete the profile folder. By default, the profile resides in the following location:
%SystemDrive%\Users\UserName
- Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.Collapse this imageExpand this image
- Locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- Under the ProfileList subkey, delete the subkey that is named SID.bak. Note SID is a placeholder for the security identifier (SID) of the user account that is experiencing the problem. The SID.bak subkey should contain a ProfileImagePath registry entry that points to the original profile folder of the user account that is experiencing the problem.
- Exit Registry Editor.
- Log off the system.
- Log on to the system again.
I just learned of a new antivirus/malware cleanup CD/iso, with support for NTFS and more.
Trinity Rescue Kit can be obtained from here;
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 or http://trinityhome.org/
It sounds like a cool CD with numerous cleanup utilities, definitely worth a visit. I for one is going to download a copy and check it out.
Do you have a temporary directory on your pc/server, you know one of those places where you put stuff to look at later but always forget to delete again? It is likely that your answer is yes, but the more important question ought to be how do I automate cleanup of this directory?
There are numerous ways to do this, but I’ll just give you one here – google the rest if you are not satisfied..
It’s actually not as hard as it sound, you need to download a utility called “forfiles.exe” (put it in c:\windows\system32 or similar) and then create a script much like this (here I presume the directory to cleanup is C:\tempdata);
rem Delete files on the server older than 14 days.
forfiles -p c:\tempdata-s -d -14 -c "cmd /c del /Q /F ""@FILE"""
or
rem Delete files older than 90 days
forfiles -p c:\tempdata-s -d -90 -c "cmd /c del /Q /F ""@FILE"""
And that is about it 🙂