Vista - The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

Thanks for that....I was fixing this for someone else..googled..found your post, followed it and worked first time...took me 10mins and I am a bit of a computer noob...THX again

Gerry

Your welcome Gerry, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

Shawn,
I've tried all recommendations, including the horrors of a repair install, and am still getting the "User Profile Service...." message.

I've tried with accounts created using Control Panel|User Accounts and using LUsrMgr.msc to no avail.

Since I can never log on, even once, with a freshly created account then there are no registry entries and sub-folders added under \Users folder.

The non-existant, "created" accounts do appear in Control Panel|User Accounts and in the msc snapin (Lusrmgr.msc).

Any ideas as to where and how to pursue this problem? So far my searches have been fruitless. My one experience with the Vista Support Center or whatever moniker they have was unproductive with no followup from the obviously Tier 1 support person.

May your day be brighter than mine, Karl

Well Karl, it looks like it may be beyond repair then, and a clean install will be needed to get it back up and running again.

After you have everything reinstalled and setup, you might use another hard drive or partition and use it to create a Complete PC Backup. This way you can use that backup to restore the completer computer back to the way it was the day of the backup.

Sorry,
Shawn

Shawn,
Pity. Clean install is out of the question. System is crippled but usable. Complete PC Backup & Restore using MS software is not without its problems on laptops which is where the problem is. Maybe Vista II (Windows 7) will be less problematic.

Thanks and if I run across the solution to this problem, I'll give you an update as there are others with the same problem.

Gig' em Aggies

Hi Shawn,

Attached my user accounts capture, have no idea how it happened and tried everything already. I only have a SID profile with no .bak, can't duplicate it for the life of me. System works half way and my installation dvd says "upgrade has been disabled", any suggestions?

Thanks

Hello fjbeltran, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might try a System Restore with a restore point dated before the problem to see if it can fix it.

If not, see if you can create another administrator account to see if it works properly. If it does, then you can delete the old account from within the new one. Be sure to select the Keep Files option, when deleting it, to have a copy of the old account's User folders placed into a folder on the desktop of the new account.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks a lot for the quick response. I already tried both and am fearing will have to reinstall arghhh hate it!!!

Thanks again

I'm sorry to hear that fjbeltran. Sometimes it is just beyond repair.

Shawn

Hi,

I am able to find the S-1_5 that i need to rename etc however I am unable to get into administrator mode, the pc has 1 standard account and 1 with admin rights, the one that appears to be corrupts it the admin 1, so when I attemtp to enable the builtin admin console it asks for password but want accept it - I don't know how to get round this..

Can anybody help please