Dual Booting WIN7 and Vista Home Premium


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    Dual boot Win7 Home Premium and Vista Home Premium SP2
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    Dual Booting WIN7 and Vista Home Premium


    I posted here earlier (a couple weeks ago) about a painless installation of Win7 on a resized C Drive, which I partitioned into into a C Drive (Vista) and W Drive (Win 7).

    All was fine until yesterday - I had been able to login into and out of both operating systems without drama - when out of the blue, for no apparent reason, whenever I try and log onto the Vista operating system, it allows me to logon as Rod with my correct password, but after the logon screen I get the "Preparing your Desktop" and and am presented with a Desktop and icons - but not for me! I get a bubble pop up out of the System Tray that says "Windows had trouble loading your Profile and has loaded up a temporary profile. Contact your administrator".

    That would be me! I for the life of me don't know what happened. I have created no new users, nor amended any existing ones. Though, when using Win7 earlier in the day, I had to give access rights and permissions to All authenticated Users in order to access and use files on a separate (D) Drive.

    Will this have screwed up my User Profile and login to Vista? How?

    Any help and or thoughts would be greatly appreciated

    Rod
    Perth
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    7600.20510 x86
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  3. Posts : 97
    Dual boot Win7 Home Premium and Vista Home Premium SP2
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It EXPLAINS it, though HOW do I login as Administrator, when the usual and ONLY Login prompt given is for Rod - me - and when I login as ME I get a "temporary profile"? Rod (me) IS the administrator.

    How does one get to login AS Administrator?

    Rgds
    Rod
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    7600.20510 x86
       #4

    • Click Start, type cmd into the search pane, wait until the system displays the cmd.exe item at the top.
    • Right click the item and choose Run as administrator.
    • In the opened command prompt, type net user administrator /active:yes and click Enter, then log off.
    • There will now be an Administrator account enabled.

    I'm almost sure that after doing this, the Admin account should show up as a user account that can be chosen at the login screen at boot.
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    Dual boot Win7 Home Premium and Vista Home Premium SP2
    Thread Starter
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    Many thanks, I'll try tonite. Sorry for tardy responses....being downunder and all, there are substantial timezone diffs!

    Rgds
    Rod
    Perth
      My Computer


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    W7 RTM Ultimate x64
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    Not sure if it works with vista/w7, correct me if im wrong, but is it still possible to use the ctrl+alt+del+del to get the basic user and password screen?

    Enzo.
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