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very long "Logging in" screen, followed by loading into Temp profile
Attempting to help my friend out with a computer problem.
She starts up, logs into acccount, gets a 10 minute wait at the loading/welcome screen, then gets logged into a temporary account. it still says she is logged in under her name in the start menu, but it is the default screensaver, and desktop files are not present. It also goes into the computers default demo mode on timed intervals of non-use.
In regedit under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList There were 2 subfiles which were identical. I deleted the one that had /TEMP in the ProfileImagePath subfolder, and removed the .bak from the file that had the correct username in the Profile Image Path.
...and I think I made it worse. I attempted to log in and got this after a long welcome screen:
"the local session manager service failed the logon"
and
"the group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation"
I am logged into the 2nd account she has, and I am trying now to make a new account so i can transfer her old files over to the new one. However when creating a new account it won't let me enter a name!
Everytime I enter a name no matter what it is, I get this message saying "The specified account name is not valid, because account names cannot contain the following characters: /\[]":; etc"
My attempted account name does not contain any of these characters
This is a Lenovo all in one Ideacentre. running Windows 7 professional 64 bit
intel i5-2310 @2.9GHz
Ram is 6GB