When i log onto my computer it logs me into a temporary profile. how do i fix this?

Question

My computer stopped working. Had to control,alt.del and shut it down. When logging back on the computer it said that I was logged into a temporary profile. My desktop had changed and all file folders on the desk top where gone. Is there any way to reset the profile? I only have one user account on the computer. I am logging into that account but nothing is the same as it was before the shut down.

Answer 1

OK, this is where I am with this problem:
I set the IE8/IE9 swith to off as suggested in the previous reply.
When I try to login now I get:
"The User Profile Service failed the logon.
User profile cannot be loaded."
Turned off the laptop and retried a few times with the same result.
Logging in with an Admin user account  I looked at the registry entries for my user account. It was basically all zeroes (apart from the user path and SID of course) and the .bak entry was the same apart from State being 0x00008000.
The last time I managed to login successfully with my own user account I backed up my registry entry to a backup drive so I shut down the laptop, logged on with Admin and restored my user account registry entry. I then looked at the registry entry I just restored and it was all zeroes apart from RefCount which was 0x00000007. I shut down the laptop.
I successfully logged on to my user account and again looked at the registry entry which was all zeroes apart from RefCount which was now 0x00000002. Why this hadn't gone up from 7 to 9 but instead went down to 2, I cannot explain?!?
I shut down the laptop, logged in as Admin and looked at my user account which was now all zeroes, including RefCount.
I tried logging in with my usual user account but this after a long, long time "preparing your desktop" I was logged in with a temporary profile again. Using Regedit to look at my profile in the registry it had RefCount of 2 and State of 0x00004a04. The .bak entry was as before, all zeroes but for state of 0x00008000.
The only way I can now login using my user account is to restore my backed-up registry entry after every successful session and close down - which is clearly not acceptable. Something is stopping the login process and only a registry restore of my profile in the ProfileList allows me to login successfully. I really can't see the RefCount being the cause of failed profile loads but even if it is, what is the root cause of the RefCount being changed to something that invalidates my Profile?
I am posting this into a Microsoft forum also, to see if any answers turn up there.