domain admin profile settings lost on logoff/reboot

Windows Vista Business
Attached to a domain
Domain does not have roaming profiles configured.

When a domain admin logs into the laptop for the first time, the domain
admin's profile is created, but upon log out, all personal settings, files,
bookmarks, shortcuts, icons are lost when the domain admin logs out.

After logging back in, the OS goes through the 'preparing your desktop' and
once loaded, all personal settings, files, bookmarks, shortcuts, and icons
are all gone.

Is there a setting or patch that can fix this problem?

> Windows Vista Business
> Attached to a domain
> Domain does not have roaming profiles configured.
>
> When a domain admin logs into the laptop for the first time, the domain
> admin's profile is created, but upon log out, all personal settings,
> files,
> bookmarks, shortcuts, icons are lost when the domain admin logs out.
>
> After logging back in, the OS goes through the 'preparing your desktop'
> and
> once loaded, all personal settings, files, bookmarks, shortcuts, and icons
> are all gone.
>
> Is there a setting or patch that can fix this problem?

Make sur that "DOMAIN\domain admins" is in the local "Administrators" group.

ThePro

domain\domain admins is already added.

I ended up getting the problem fixed with the solution below that I found
from another thread.

"Samir" wrote:

> Same issue here with my domain account that can't log on properly.
>
> I've created other accounts in the domain and they all work fine, but my own
> old account cannot load my profile. I get a warning about the temporary
> profile being loaded and eventid 1515 and 1511 are logged in the application
> log.
>
> I've tried deleting my old profile from C:\Users but it still won't work. I
> end up with the C:\Users\TEMP profile.
>
>
> As this is a domain account (not using roaming profile from the network) I
> can't carry out any account modifications on my PC that would help. I'd like
> to start using my PC effectivly again, but it's hard when all settings are
> cleared everytime I restart...
>
> //Vista Business 64-bit (eng)


My problem was solved using this technique:
1. Restart your PC to release the locks on your profile.
2. Log on with another administrative account
3. Delete C:\Users\%username%
4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP
5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make
sure you pick your own profile.
6. Restart once again and then you're done!

Hope this helps someone using domain accounts instead of local ones!


"ThePro" wrote:

> > Windows Vista Business
> > Attached to a domain
> > Domain does not have roaming profiles configured.
> >
> > When a domain admin logs into the laptop for the first time, the domain
> > admin's profile is created, but upon log out, all personal settings,
> > files,
> > bookmarks, shortcuts, icons are lost when the domain admin logs out.
> >
> > After logging back in, the OS goes through the 'preparing your desktop'
> > and
> > once loaded, all personal settings, files, bookmarks, shortcuts, and icons
> > are all gone.
> >
> > Is there a setting or patch that can fix this problem?
>
> Make sur that "DOMAIN\domain admins" is in the local "Administrators" group.
>
> ThePro
>