We’re still getting 'temporary profile' bugs
I’ve been talking about this for
more than two months. In some set of circumstances, as yet undiagnosed, the Win10 Cumulative Update installer hits a “
race condition” on reboot, with the user coming back up in a temporary profile. That sounds like a lot of buzz words, and it is, but the net result is that the user runs the update, reboots, and returns to a clean desktop, without their desktop customizations, while files in their customary folders (such as Documents) have disappeared.
It’s disconcerting, even if you’re savvy enough to realize you’ve been pushed into a temporary profile. The desktop customizations are still there, as are the files, but they behave as if they belong to a different user.
We even have a
report on AskWoody from someone who upgraded from Win10 version 1903 to 1909, and got bit by the same disappearing/temporary profile bug.
Microsoft hasn’t
officially acknowledged the bug, although it’s been reported many times on the Microsoft Answers Forum and in the Feedback Hub. We still have no idea if there’s a specific program or set of programs triggering the race condition. All we know for sure is that the bug’s still there, and people are still waking up after installing Cumulative Updates to PCs with clean desktops and missing – er, relocated – files.