Repair corrupted vista registry

Cancel Submit. SpiritX Volunteer Moderator. Hi, Check with your System maker as they all have slightly different methods. They may have included a Recovery Partition or other methods to restore to default. Also your System maker will sell you the physical disks cheaply since you already own Windows.

What are the system recovery options in Windows Vista? The below are just some options and you do need to contact System Maker's Support to be sure you know all the options you have. Rob - Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.

To remove a registry entry, select that entry and click the Remove Entry button. To uninstall an application, select the application and click the Uninstall button. Each time you scan and fix your registry, Little Registry Cleaner saves a copy of your registry so you will always have a working copy. To restore to another registry, select the registry you know you want and then click the Restore button.

You will notice Figure F that the three registries all show a different size. This size differential is due to the use of Little Registry Cleaner. As you can see the first registry was quite a bit larger than the other two.

When you click the restore button, you will be asked if you are sure. Of course you always want to be careful when making changes to your registry as you can cause your machine to be unusable. If you are looking for a simple way to clean and fix your registry but want to have a few extra bells and whistles along for the ride, Little Registry Cleaner is the way to go. TechRepublic's Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report newsletter, delivered every Friday, offers tips, news, and scuttlebutt on Vista and Windows 7, including a look at new features in the latest version of the Windows OS.

Automatically sign up today! He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen In this blog post we will take a look at this open source registry cleaner to see if it can handle the task This blog post is also available in PDF format in a free TechRepublic download.

With the all latest Windows updates and good computer hardware, I doubt you will be facing this issue on the latest Operating Systems. In case, if you face the same temp profile issue on Windows 10 or 8. The registry modification should fix the problem easily. Most probably this method will fix the problem. So, rename the new profile key which is not having. Log off and login or restart with your user name and password. You must get your correct profile with icons and profile settings back in Windows 7 if you are lucky enough.

Still if Windows 7 laptop loads with the temporary profile and creates a registry key with. So, run the check disk for partition which is having the user profile. After restarting the computer to run check disk, if you see corrupted entries and repairing process inside your user profile folder, then you can hope for a piece of good news here.

If it finds and repairs files especially Ntuser files, you may get your old Windows 7 profile back. Even though Windows 8 and Windows 8. If any system files corruption found, that will be fixed during the scan. You may need to have Windows installation DVD with you for this process, it is required to replace corrupted files from the original installation medium. System restore is another solution you can try before going to the next step.

As system restore does not affect the user files, it will put back the system state with the changes in the system to a certain date when it worked perfectly. Few users reported this method as a solution for temporary profile loading issue on Windows 8.

Also, you can try a system restore or re-installation repair of whole Windows 8 Operating System if none of the steps work for you. If the above steps do not help you out, then we need to create a new profile with the new username.

Basically, we need to create a new user account, login with it and transfer the data from the old user profile to the new user profile. It is easy in a workgroup home and individual PCs environment as you can create a new username locally, but it is tricky in the domain environment. Because the existing user account is already there on the domain server and nothing wrong with it.