Solved User Profile Service won't start

[VistaKing]

What I was going have you do is rename the profile to [username].old and delete the SID folder that goes with that user name and recreate it inside the command prompt .

Repair Installation only works from within windows I believe .

 

[Platypodes]

I tried earlier just to see if I could bring it up, and I can run the setup through the command prompt to start the repair if that's the best solution.

If I didn't rename the profile, but still deleted the SID that goes with it, might that work or screw something up?

 

[VistaKing]

Lets see if we could create a new account

Type the command in command prompt

net user (User Account Name) /add

Press [enter]

   Note

Type in the new user name without "()"

To add the new account to the administrator's group type in the command below

net localgroup Administrators (User Account Name) /add

Press [ENTER]

 

[Platypodes]

I actually tried that earlier, too. I can make a new account and log into it, but it doesn't add a new SID into the registry when I log into it, it has all the same problems as the main account, plus it can't access the command prompt. For some reason, only the main account can access the command prompt. The built-in admin account can't either.

 

[Platypodes]

I just logged into the other account real quick just to try it again and noticed that basically the search function doesn't work at all. It wouldn't get into cmd, regedit, or even system. Nothing that I searched for showed up at all.

EDIT: It's getting late here, so I'll see if you have any more suggestions in the morning (later in the morning, anyway). Thanks for the help so far.

 

[VistaKing]

If we have to do a clean install . Take a look at this helpful tutorial below

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93347-copy-paste-windows-recovery-console.html?ltr=C

For the USB to read from the command prompt all you need to know is the letter of the drive . To do this you would need to open up Diskpart .

Commands to type

Diskpart
List volume

It should tell you drive letter of the USB drive .

 

[Platypodes]

When I list the volumes, the usb drive doesn't show up. When I List Disk, it shows up in Disk 1 (as opposed to Disk 0 where the main hard drive is). When I select disk 1, there aren't any volumes, but it does list a partition that's the appropriate size (It's only a 1 Gb drive).

 

[Platypodes]

But thanks for that copy and paste link. I'm trying to use that to make backups now.

 

[VistaKing]

You could Add a drive letter to it .

DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 1 ( that's the USB drive )
ASSIGN LETTER=[color="red"]?[/color]
EXIT
EXIT

   Note

? is the letter you choose for the USB drive

 

[Platypodes]

I tried that and it told me it couldn't because there weren't any volumes on it. I guess the fact that it only recognizes it as a partition matters as far as that's concerned.

 

[VistaKing]

Try this

DISKPART
LIST DISK 
SELECT DISK 1
SELECT PARTITION 1
ASSIGN LETTER=
EXIT
EXIT

 

[Platypodes]

I tried that, too. I'm able to copy the files through the recovery options in what you had just linked to now, though, so I don't need it to register in the command prompt anymore. I'd still prefer to not do a clean reinstall if we can help it, or at least try another repair, but at least now I can have backups of what I need from the computer. I'll post again once I've saved what I need to.

 

[VistaKing]

Before you tried to do anything . Did you restart the PC a few times to unlock the Profiles ? Then going into the registry and touching the ProfileList registry key ?

 

[Platypodes]

Yes. Restarting was the first step after I noticed something was wrong. It was a couple hours later that I found out about checking the registry settings for the profile, though. I wasn't able to check that early on.

 

[VistaKing]

Im going to run a test on my virtual machine and see what I could come up with. Is it possible to get a picture of what you see in the registry under Profile List ?

 

[Platypodes]

I'm not really sure how I'd be able to do that at this point. I doubt screenshots would work even if I could transfer it back onto my own computer.

 

[VistaKing]

Ok lets try this

Inside the command prompt type in the command below

wmic useraccount where name='[COLOR="Red"][B]oldname[/B][/COLOR]' rename[COLOR="Red"][B][username].old[/B][/COLOR]

   Note

Use quotes as it shows

press [ENTER]

Then recreate the account

net user oldusername /add

press [ENTER]

THEN

net localgroup Administrators (User Account Name) /add

Then once you have recreated the name. Go to regedit and delete the SID and it should recreate the SID once you're able to login with the recreated user ID.

 

[Platypodes]

First thing I have to mention is that the name that is used to log in with (Kelly) is not the same as what is in the users folder (David). So, I tried renaming Kelly at first, since that's what it says when I log into it, and that failed. When I used David, it seemed like it worked, but the folder's name wasn't actually changed. I'll post what it says:

Executing (\\David-PC\Root\CIMV2:Win32_UserAccount.Domain="david-PC",Name="David")-)rename()
Method execution successful.
Out Parameters:
instance of __PARAMETERS
(
ReturnValue = 9;
);

And when I followed that up with recreating the same name, it says that account already exists.

 

[VistaKing]

The profile with the issue is Kelly? Right

so you would enter wmic useraccount where name='Kelly' rename Kelly.old

Then type in net user Kelly /add

then type in net localgroup Administrators Kelly /add Restart the computer and you should see Three accounts before you log in

 

[Platypodes]

Here's the odd part. The users folder is c:\Users\David, but what I see when I get to the Windows login is Kelly. When I use Kelly in the above script, it says "No instance available". I just tried David instead (and I had originally run the command with the brackets still around David, so I didn't do that this time) and it said it was successful. I then added a new David account, set the admin rights and restarted. When I got into the logon screen, it had the admin, David, Kelly, and Davidtest (the profile I added earlier when I was troubleshooting this myself). I tried to log into the newly-created David account, and it had all the same problems as all the other accounts that aren't the Kelly account, which means I couldn't get into the command prompt from there, or regedit. And so I've now logged back out of that one and into the Kelly profile. Regedit doesn't show any added profiles. It's all as it was.