I've been recently having some computer issues.
I'm pretty sure that I've narrowed it down to a single corrupt file.
I believe it's called "ntuser.dat" I realize that it is the settings and whatnot for my specific user account.

Whenever I try to log onto this profile it comes up with an ERROR stating corrupt user environment.
To test my theory I created a spare account and copied this file over.. this resulted in the same errors as the other account.
All fresh accounts SEEM to work fine.

So what I'm wondering is, if it's possible to create a new user account and just use the ntuser.dat file from there?
Is this potentially dangerous to my computer, any side affects of doing this? Is this a GOOD idea? Or is there another more elegant solution to my problems? Any help is welcome =) What is the EXACT error, you're getting?Ok every time I try to log on with the user account "Owner" a pop-up window comes up.
It has a 30 second countdown and reads,

"User Environment:
Windows can not load user profile but has instead logged you on with the default profile
Details: Access Denied"

Thats the error that pops up, and to note it only pops up on this account any other account works just fine. Though this is the primary account so I would prefer to get it in running ORDER instead of replacing it.Create new administrator account, and move all data from apparently corrupted profile to a new one: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151Which is essentially the same as grabbing a "ntuser.dat", "ntuser.ini", and "ntuser.dat.log" file from a fresh account and putting them into this one am I right? It seems as if it would be a much more time saving process to do it this way?

It's not the same, because rarely files, SERVICES, and processes act alone. Usually, they interact, and there is a lot of dependencies inside Windows.I would have to agree with Broni, the NTUSER.DAT file interacts with a few other file on the system providing them with account information and the information on a NTUSER.DAT file will differ from each user account so in effect just replacing the file may actually cause you more issues in the long run.

so just transferring the needed data from the profile you think is currupt to a new admin acount (altho it is a longer will) is a safer way to avoid more errors