Hi,
The user profile is damaged, and this is generally not recoverable. What you
can do is create a new one and copy the user data from the old one into it.
How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
Note that one step not listed in the article is that after creating the
destination profile you must log into it once first to create the necessary
file structure before you do the copy procedure.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"JazzyP" <JazzyP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C22ED44-66C3-4A06-8409-B28E272290D9@microsoft.com...
> WhatWhen I attempt to login I get this message:
>
> "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the
> default profile for the system.
>
> DETAIL - The system has attempted to load or restore a file into the
> registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format."
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
>
>
