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You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error [SOLVED]

Author Aditya Farrad Published on February 17, 2021 4 min read
Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile error

Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error: When you try to login to Windows using your user account and you receive the following error message “You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile” then this means that your user account profile has been corrupted. Well, all your user profile information and settings are saved in Registry keys which can easily become corrupt. When the user profile gets corrupted Windows will log you in with a temporary profile rather than the standard user profile. In such case you will receive the following error message:

You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile.
You can’t access your files, and files created in this profile will be deleted when you sign out. To fix this, sign out and try signing in later. Please see the event log for more details or contact your system administrator.

Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile error

There is no particular cause of corruption as it can happen due to anything such as installing Windows updates, upgrading your Windows, restarting your PC, installing 3d party apps, changing registry values etc. So without wasting any time let’s see how to actually Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error with the help of below-listed troubleshooting guide.

Contents

  • You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error [SOLVED]
  • Method 1: Run SFC and DISM
  • Method 2: Run System Restore
  • Method 3: Registry Fix

You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error [SOLVED]

Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong.

Before doing anything you must enable the built-in administrator account which will help you in troubleshooting:

a)Press Windows Key + X then select Command Prompt (Admin).

command prompt admin

b)Type the following command and hit Enter:

net user administrator /active: yes

active administrator account by recovery

Note: Once you’re done with the troubleshooting follow the above same steps then type “net user Administrator /active: no” in order to disable the built-in administrator account.

c)Restart your PC and login to this new administrator account.

Method 1: Run SFC and DISM

1.Press Windows Key + X then click on Command Prompt(Admin).

command prompt with admin rights

2.Now type the following in the cmd and hit enter:

Sfc /scannow
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows (If above fails then try this one)

SFC scan now command prompt

3.Wait for the above process to finish and once done restart your PC.

4.Again open cmd and type the following command and hit enter after each one:

a) Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
b) Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
c) Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

DISM restore health system

5.Let the DISM command run and wait for it to finish.

6. If the above command doesn’t work then try on the below:

Dism /Image:C:\offline /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:c:\test\mount\windows /LimitAccess

Note: Replace the C:\RepairSource\Windows with the location of your repair source (Windows Installation or Recovery Disc).

7.Reboot your PC to save changes and see if you’re able to Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.

Method 2: Run System Restore

1.Press Windows Key + R and type”sysdm.cpl” then hit enter.

system properties sysdm

2.Select System Protection tab and choose System Restore.

system restore in system properties

3.Click Next and choose the desired System Restore point.

system-restore

4.Follow the on-screen instruction to complete system restore.

5.After reboot, you may be able to Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error.

Method 3: Registry Fix

Note: Make sure to backup registry just in case something goes wrong.

1.Press Windows Key + X then select Command Prompt (Admin).

command prompt admin

2.Type the following command into cmd and hit Enter:

wmic useraccount where name=’USERNAME’ get sid

use command wmic useraccount where name='USERNAME' get sid

Note: Replace USERNAME with your actual account username. Note down the output of the command into a seperate notepad file.

Example: wmic useraccount where name=’aditya’ get sid

3.Press Windows Key + R then type regedit and hit Enter to open Registry Editor.

Run command regedit

4.Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

5.Under ProfileList, you will find the SID specific to a users profile. Using the the SID we noted in step 2, find the correct SID of your profile.

Under ProfileList there would be a subkey starting with S-1-5

6.Now you will find that there would be two SID’s with the same name, one with .bak extension and other without it.

7.Select the SID which doesn’t have .bak extension, then in the right window pane double-click on ProfileImagePath string.

Locate the subkey ProfileImagePath and check its value

8.In the value data path, it would direct to C:\Users\temp which is creating all the problem.

9.Now right-click on the SID which doesn’t have .bak extension and select Delete.

10.Select SID with the .bak extension then double-click on ProfileImagePath string and change it’s value to C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME.

Double-click on ProfileImagePath string and change it's value to your username

Note: Rename YOUR_USERNAME with your actual account username.

11.Next, right-click on SID with .bak extension and select Rename. Remove the .bak extension from the SID name and hit Enter.

If you only have one folder with above description which ends with the .bak extension then rename it

12.Close Registry Editor and reboot your PC to save changes.

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That’s it you have successfully Fix You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile error but if you still have any questions regarding this post then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.

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Aditya is a self-motivated information technology professional and has been a technology writer for the last 7 years. He covers Internet services, mobile, Windows, software, and How-to guides.

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