Please help me. Account loading problem.

About a week ago, when I tried logging into my computer's account ("Kyle"--the only account on my computer), it failed and instead loaded a "temp" account. It worried me, but I didn't think much of it. I logged off, shut the computer down and tried again. The next time I logged in everything was fine. My account loaded like normal. Since that day it logged in fine every time.

Now today. My computer had been on since Wednesday afternoon (when I moved back to my dorm, though that has nothing to do with this). Before I came back home today, I shut it down like I always do. When I got home and booted it up, my account failed to load again. I tried logging off, relogging, shutting down, etc etc, but it would never load. It keeps failing and booting up a temp. account.

I have all of my personal files backed up on an external drive, and I updated them very recently. That's not a problem. I'm not upset about losing anything because I'll be losing very little. What I'm upset about is losing ALL the customizations to my account. That account IS me. I lose everything. All the changes I've made to programs, Windows, etc. Changes I've made over the two and a half years of owning this computer... It blows my mind trying to get everything back to the way I had it. I can't do it...

I'm not finding anything helpful on Google, either. So please, is there any way to get my account to load again? What is wrong? If all else fails, is there any way to get my account's details transferred to a new account so I don't have to redo EVERYTHING? Please. Thank you.

Try system restoring to the week before the problem first started, or even earlier. System restoring fixes everything.

Restored as far back as I could (the beginning of the 7th), which I'm certain was before the first incident. No dice.

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

Go create accounts on multiple computer nerd forums and make topics about your issue. The solution to all of my problems has always been system restore; can't believe it won't work for you.

Try system restoring to the week before the problem first started, or even earlier. System restoring fixes everything.

System Restore utterly fails completely with BS whipcream on top when you're trying to reverse a CRC error resulting from a windows update.

Felix, I'm sorry I don't know what's causing your problem, but if it helps, my first thought was "corrupted".

I was able to copy most of my AppData folder from my original account to my new one. That fixes a lot of the problems but not everything, unfortunately. I was able to restore most of my programs' preferences (Firefox is one of them, which is awesome).

I'm still looking for a better and actual way to restore an account (or copy everything about it to a new account). Joe was helping me a bit ago, and I have one more thing I might try tonight. We'll see what happens.