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Administrator user service profile failed log on
On my home pc I log on as the administrator, with no password, and have two other accounts for my daughters (who are sensible creatures and only ever log on as themselves to talk with friends / play games / watch and listen to music).
Last night, for about the fourth time that day I tried to log in and this time I got the message 'User service profile failed log on'.
Unfortunately I have WinPatrol which checks every time one alters the pc, and will not let me set up a new user profile when I log on as daughter a or b. Since I have no password I just click return, as normal, but the exercise is aborted. (I can't even burn a cd). I am waiting to hear from them how to suspend Winpatrol, but I imagine they are asleep (I'm in Europe)
Using a (recent) rescue disc I have gone back a couple of days to a restore point, but it found no errors and still the log on failed.
I really, really don't want to reinstall 7 and then the upgrade to ultimate all over again, with associated loss of this and that. Any bright ideas please ?
Background:
AMD Phenom II x4, 2600 MHz
Nvidia GeForce 8200
2x2048 DDR2-SDRAM
2xST3320418AS 320GB
I hadn't been doing anything more significant all day than using Excel and Word as well as Firefox to check the weather forecast.