The User Profile Service service failed the logon

Brink,

I followed your instructions to "restore". First, I restored to a point prior my installation of Dragon Naturally Speaking. I was glad to find that very specific restore point.

After the restore everything looked good for a few minutes. The Admin icon was missing, leaving me with the same user account icons as before. I logged into my old admin account with the old password and thought I must be golden. Soon thereafter, however, I got a noticed a box that told me "System Restore did not complete successfully" "an unspecified error (0Xc000002).

Windows then invited me to restore to an earlier point. I picked the next most senior restore point and had a go. Long story short, same thing happened.

Then, I started looking around my PC for evidence of abnormal operation. So far, depite the "unspecified error" and "incomplete restore", everything seems fine, so far as I can tell so far, pretty much what I had before the crash.

What now?

Brink, that was the answer I hoped to get.

Now I will think twice before I try to install Dragon again.

By the way, the "administrator" icon is gone again. Is there any reason for me to enable it again? I think I (my old account) is somehow an admin account so there might be two admin accounts or a conflict if I enabled "administrator" again.

Thanks so much for your patience and help. Sorry for my confusion. This stuff is not quite Greek to me, but it's pretty much Macedonian.