Re: The User Profile Service failed the logon.

[Guest danny22]

can someone please help me with a user orofile failed the logon issue John Bailey204437 Wrote:

> I've been using Windows Vista Ultimate for almost three months now, and

> all

> of a sudden tonight I couldn't log on to my laptop. Every time I tried

> I

> received the message "The User Profile Service failed the logon. The

> User

> Profile failed to load." I had successfully logged on to it only five

> hours

> earlier, so I did not understand what could be going on.

>

> Fortunately after Googling the error message (I originally used

> Microsoft

> Live Searct, but did not get any results), I found someone who had a

> similar

> error and had found that his profile had entered a backup state. I

> logged on

> with my domain administrator account (it's good to be the king

> sometimes) and

> examined the keys under HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrent

> UserProfileList and was able to find the key for my user id SID. Sure

> enough, the key had a ".bak" appended to it and there was an identical

> one

> that was set to a temp directory. I renamed the other key, removed the

> ".bak" from mine, and changed the State property under my key to 0.

> This

> allowed me to log in.

>

> Does anyone know what might have caused this issue? If this is a bug,

> its a

> pretty severe one, as I can just imagine a help desk trying to resolve

> this

> over the phone with their laptop users who all of a sudden can't log

> in.

>

> Thanks.

>

> *Edit*

> *Solution can be found here :-

> *'*http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-u...ot-loaded.html*'

> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-u...not-loaded.html)

 

 

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danny22