Yesterday I was going to shut down the computer and hit either log off or switch user and bow i cannot get back on as the administrator . I have HP windows vista. Its only a couple of months old. My wallpaper is gone, ALONG with all of my bookmarks etc. I tried doing a system RECOVERY, that didnt help. If I shut down and restart everything I did add, book marks, set up email accounts is gone again. I get an error message the says user profile not loaded correctly. you have been logged on witha temporary file. see you event log or administrator. Event log doesnt tell me anything. How do I log on as administrator? When I start the computer it has my little Icon and name but then I get the error message. TIA,

SherryThe builtin administrator is disabled by default in Windows Vista.

If you want to use this account, the first THING you'll have to do is enable the administrator using Computer Management.

But then it still does not SHOW up on the Welcome Screen.
Like in XP, you have to add a registry key to accomplish this.

1. Start the registry editor.
2. Browse to HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
3. Create a new key: SpecialAccounts
4. In the SpecialAccounts key, create another new key: UserList
5. In this key, create a new DWORD value: Administrator
6. Set this value to 1

Then you should be able to logon with the builtin administrator.