I am new to these forums so excuse me if i put this in the wrong section, as i am not really sure where it should go.
Either way, I have just begun to experience a really frustrating problem with windows vista. Two nights ago when i started my computer up and typed in my password instead of the screen just putting up 'Welcome', it changed to 'Preparing Your Desktop'. After this it took about 3 minutes for my desktop to load, which is almost double the amount of time. When the desktop finally opens, a bubble pops up telling me that my user profile was not correctly loaded, and a temporary one has been loaded in its place.
At first i thought it might have just become corrupt and i could start a new profile. But none of the changes stick to this temporary file or any new user name i create. Frustrating that i have to upload my itunes library everytime i want to listen to music.
So i had a friend of mine try to help me, and he had me checking a file HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Under here i tried to ensure that the key name did not end in .bad (but it does end in .bak), The ref count was at 1 which i changed to 0, and the state count was already at 0.
None of this did anything... and really i don't know enough about computers to really comprehend what he has me doing here... so if anyone has a solution or any help... it would be greatly appreciated. If anymore information is needed, let me know.
Either way, I have just begun to experience a really frustrating problem with windows vista. Two nights ago when i started my computer up and typed in my password instead of the screen just putting up 'Welcome', it changed to 'Preparing Your Desktop'. After this it took about 3 minutes for my desktop to load, which is almost double the amount of time. When the desktop finally opens, a bubble pops up telling me that my user profile was not correctly loaded, and a temporary one has been loaded in its place.
At first i thought it might have just become corrupt and i could start a new profile. But none of the changes stick to this temporary file or any new user name i create. Frustrating that i have to upload my itunes library everytime i want to listen to music.
So i had a friend of mine try to help me, and he had me checking a file HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Under here i tried to ensure that the key name did not end in .bad (but it does end in .bak), The ref count was at 1 which i changed to 0, and the state count was already at 0.
None of this did anything... and really i don't know enough about computers to really comprehend what he has me doing here... so if anyone has a solution or any help... it would be greatly appreciated. If anymore information is needed, let me know.
... Hopefully things will run smoothly from now on.