Corruption of a single file can unable the windows from accessing it and it will log you on to a temporary profile with showing a message like,

“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.”



or in In Windows 7, the error message looks like:

“You have been logged on with a temporary profile. You cannot access your files and files created in this profile will be deleted when you log off. To fix this, log off and try logging on later. Please see the event log for details or contact your system administrator.”.





With this Temporary login you can use, but a small delay in reading your account profile can also give the same results. Any changes you make to this temporary profile will not be saved hence loading a fresh profile each time you log in.

What does this mean 

The pop-up notificating message “You’ve been signed in with a temporary profile” means that the operating system was unable to correctly load your profile. The profile is most likely damaged. This error can occur if somebody deleted data from the profile or tried to rename the path to the profile.

Windows 10 Fix You’ve been Signed in With a Temporary Profile Error

First of all you need to find the SID (Security Identifier) of your user account, SID is actually experiencing the temporary profile issue and displaying the notification.


 just press the Windows + R keys to open the Run box. Type cmd and press Enter.

In the Windows command prompt type the below given command:

wmic useraccount where name='srikant' get sid



As Result you will get the  SID  S-1-5-21-592416196-2490419660-2786420411-1001

After finding the SID, close the Command Prompt. Now we begin to fix the registry settings. Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run box. Type regedit and press Enter.

 After opening the Registry Editor Window, navigate to the below given registry subkey:

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


After finding the SID of your affected account, click on that SID key (without .bak), you’ll see the “ProfileImagePath” entry in the right pane that points to a temporary profile.

 Double-click the ProfileImagePath entry to edit the values data. Type the correct profile path and click OK.

If you don’t know the correct profile location, open Windows Explorer and browse to C:\Users. point ProfileImagePath to C:\Users\srikant. If your profile folder was already corrupted or deleted, just delete the SID key.

Next, right-click on your old SID key that is maked as .bak, and then click on Delete.


That’s it. Log off or restart your computer. Windows will sign in to your account with a local profile instead of a temporary profile, and you will no longer receive the temporary profile error.