Solved User profile cannot be loaded

[Monz]

Hello,

I have a issue with my profile, when I try to logon to my profile at login screen this message appears -
"User profile service failed to logon. User profile cannot be loaded."

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[boohbah]

there is a tutorial you can follow to sort that out, i had to use it myself and it worked,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

 

[Monz]

But the thing is that I don't have another administrator account and I get this same error when I try to login in safe mode.

 

[VistaKing]

Enable the built-in Administrator account

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/102552-built-administrator-enable-winre.html

 

[Brink]

there is a tutorial you can follow to sort that out, i had to use it myself and it worked,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

But the thing is that I don't have another administrator account and I get this same error when I try to login in safe mode.

Hello Monz,

You can use the steps under "In Preparation" in the tutorial above to enable and log in to the built-in Administrator account to then be able to do the rest of the tutorial.

 

[Monz]

Hi,

"A) Using your "retail" Windows 7 installation disc or a created*system repair disc, boot into*Safe Mode."
If you mean on this, im unable to do these methods.

 

[Brink]

What's preventing you from being able to?

Are you able to use OPTION TWO to open a command prompt at boot?

If need be, you could create a Windows 7 Enterprise installation DVD/USB on another PC to use at boot on your PC to do the steps (Method II) to: Built-in Administrator - Enable from WinRE

 

[Monz]

I managed to boot into safe mode today, but when i typed 'regedit' in start menu search box, nothing came out as a result.

 

[Brink]

See if you may be able to open it directly at C:\Windows\regedit instead.

 

[Monz]

It works from there. But before doing anything I should say that im getting some error every time I log in with safe mode, I dont know if it changes anything but it goes like this : "C:/Windows/system32/config/systemprofile/Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network."
And could you explain me what am I excatly doing by changing those sid keys, since i dont want to mess up something and dont have a restore point after, since all my restore points somehow got deleted.

 

[Brink]

That error indicates that the system profile is missing as well.

Sure thing. Basically, there's two options to use in the tutorial.

Option One is an attempt to repair your user profile without losing anything by restoring the backup .bak SID key (if available) and deleting the other corrupted SID key. This option is basically to restore a backup of the profile.

Option Two is a last ditch effort to create a new user profile to use instead. This would be an option if there's not a backup .bak SID key available for the profile. You would want to backup anything that you do not want to lose in the corrupted account's user folders first if able.

 

[Monz]

I tried option one from your tutorial but nothing, error is still there.

 

[Brink]

Sounds like you'll need to use Option Two then.

 

[Monz]

Is there any other way?

 

[Brink]

Since you have no restore points, then it's pretty much that or reinstall Windows.

 

[Monz]

Which one do you suggest me?

 

[Brink]

I would recommend to give Option Two a try first to see if it may save you the time of having to do a clean install.

Be sure to back up anything that you do not want to lose first though.

 

[Monz]

I'm sorry, which Option three are you reffering to?

 

[Brink]

No problem. The Option Two from here:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html