U52F won't start up correctly

Bought this a few weeks ago and the following problem happens intermittently, sometimes several times in a row before it will come up correctly. Restart doesn't help, have to shut down / start up.
After sign on, and Welcome and Preparing your desktop, I get:
c:\\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.
When I click OK, I just get the Recycle Bin on the desktop and can't see any of my files in the Document library.
I'm about to return it, but thought I'd try some forums.

 

The file W7 is looking for got moved or deleted somehow.

You could try booting into safe mode and searching so you can relocate it back to where it belongs. Or, another alternative would be to simply do a full system reinstall using the Recovery Partition (F8 on startup). You'll lose any data you have on the OS partition with this option, obviously.

No reason to return the unit.

 

As ClearSkies says, there's no reason to return it if this is your only problem.

A quick search turns up many solutions, like this one: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/808717-solved-c-windows-system32-config.html