How To Fix Secure Pages Not Displaying

Last week I had a strange error on my Windows XP SP3 Dell D630 laptop. It was suddenly not able to display all secure web pages (https). Additional strange thing is everything is normal with other accounts. My simple solution was to re-create my user profile, see details below:

1.I logged in using my admin account. I had to use my admin account to have full access on all user profile and be able to rename my old profile. I have not tested doing this procedure using standard account profile.
2.Renamed my user profile with some like OldProfile. C:\Documents and Settings. The idea behind is for Windows XP to recreate my profile during logon as it will not see my old user folder.
3.Logged in using my old account. My computer is a member of a domain so I have to manually type in my user account and password and choose the domain I want to login.
4.Waited for the computer to recreate my profile.

Above procedure fixed my problem and I feel that my computer is faster than the old profile. I have to restore some personal preferences from my old to new profile. Browser bookmark (or simply favorites), browser addons, desktop shortcuts and icons, Wallpapers, software that may be profile related and other user specific features.

Microsoft has other options on dealing with this.

A user profile on a Windows XP system contains all the files and settings needed to configure your work environment. If the user profile becomes damaged, Windows XP will display one of two error messages when you to log on to the system:
Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. You may be logged in using a temporary User Profile.
OR:
The system has recovered from a serious error.

The operating system will then automatically create a new user profile and log you into this new profile. When this occurs, youll immediately discover that all of your personalized settingssuch as color scheme, wallpaper, and iconsare gone. Even more disturbing is that the My Documents folder doesnt show any of your documents. Youll also discover that Outlook Express and Internet Explorer will be void of any of your personal settings and data.

When this happens, its very easy to quickly go into panic mode and think that youve lost everything. However, in most cases, all youve actually lost is the user profile and most, if not all, of your data is safe and sound.
Must be an administrator
Keep in mind that in order to perform the recovery operations discussed in this article, you must be working from an account with Computer Administrator privileges. If the temporary account that Windows XP creates for you when your original becomes damaged has Computer Administrator privileges, you can use it as a staging area for the recovery operation. If its not, youll need to log off, then log on to the default Administrator account or to another account that has Computer Administrator privileges. Ill refer to this as the working account throughout this article.
Backing up your data
The first thing that youll want to do is make sure that the data in your original account is safe and then back it up. To begin the backup operation, launch Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:\Documents and Settings folder. Then, locate and open your original account folder. At this point, you should see all the files and folders in your original user profile.

You can open your original account folder and back up all the files and folders containing crucial data.

Youll then want to copy your crucial data files to another location. For example, youll definitely want to copy the contents of your My Documents folder, which will appear as UserNamesDocuments. (On my example system, its called Greg Shultzs Documents.) You may also want copy the contents of the Favorites folder. If youre using Outlook Express, you can find the files that make up your e-mail messages stored in the Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{#####}\Microsoft\Outlook Express folder. Youll find your Address Book file in the Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book folder. If youre using Outlook 2000/XP, youll find the PST file in the Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Once youve backed up your crucial data files, you can proceed with the recovery operation knowing that your data is indeed safe and sound.