Profile missing after shutdown - anyone else seeing this?

It seems that i was never meant to run vista happily. This morning when i
went to login vista had deleted my user profile for the 30th time in 8 weeks.
Since i have had this happen literally 30 time, i know to backup my profile
when i make changes, and to not save anything important within my profile

alphabita wrote:
> It seems that i was never meant to run vista happily. This morning when i
> went to login vista had deleted my user profile for the 30th time in 8 weeks.
> Since i have had this happen literally 30 time, i know to backup my profile
> when i make changes, and to not save anything important within my profile

This is not normal behavior. Usually this type of problem is caused by
faulty hardware. Since you've told us nothing about your computer (new
OEM/prebuilt, your own homebuilt, etc.) or how Vista was installed
(preinstalled on OEM machine, upgrade, clean install on your own
home-built, etc.), that's as specific as I can get. I would start
troubleshooting by running diagnostic utilities on the hard drive and
the RAM.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot


Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

i found that i had previously posted this and people replied to it. My issue
does not seem to be related to hardware, but a setting in group policy that
deletes old profiles. Iam going to change that policy and see if it helps.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...1688&SiteID=17

"Malke" wrote:

> alphabita wrote:
> > It seems that i was never meant to run vista happily. This morning when i
> > went to login vista had deleted my user profile for the 30th time in 8 weeks.
> > Since i have had this happen literally 30 time, i know to backup my profile
> > when i make changes, and to not save anything important within my profile
>
> This is not normal behavior. Usually this type of problem is caused by
> faulty hardware. Since you've told us nothing about your computer (new
> OEM/prebuilt, your own homebuilt, etc.) or how Vista was installed
> (preinstalled on OEM machine, upgrade, clean install on your own
> home-built, etc.), that's as specific as I can get. I would start
> troubleshooting by running diagnostic utilities on the hard drive and
> the RAM.
>
> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>