You have been logged on with a temporary profile

What:

Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server

Problem:

User is being logged on with a temporary folder.

Solution:

Most common cause is that a user's profile folder located in C:\Users has been removed, but related registry entries were left unchanged. Now when user logs on, profile can not be located and system is using a temporary folder as a fall-back.

1. Log on as administrator, if C:\Users\TEMP exists, remove it
2. Start > Run, type in regedit and hit enter
3. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Check all the entries "S-1-5-21-..." and find the registry key “ProfileImagePath”, with a path to deleted user's folder. Take a note of the Guid entry.
4. Rename corresponding registry key from the "ProfileList" folder adding .removed at the end, i.e.

S-1-5-21-1676436058-1256593534-99485923-1081.removed

5. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid

6. Rename key that matches the Guid found in step 3. adding .removed at the end

{f3955e58-02c1-4298-893f-c5ce79f108a5}.removed

7. Log on as a user
8. New clean and working profile should be now created