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

Anybody know if I Will loose all my pictures?

Hello Crzyreddobe89, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You should not lose them if they are in your C:\Users\(user name)\Pictures folder. To be safe, you can copy them from that location to DVD or some other form of media.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

G'Day Shawn,

I've just been through the trauma of this sort of event. A bit of background;

It was without any previous experience or knowledge of Computers, or of their functions and systems, that 19 months ago I started with this, my first Laptop. In the initial setup I naturally created an Administrator Account, and 'shock , horror', have been operating with that sole account, since then.

'smarteyeball' recently advised me of the errors of my ways, especially from the security aspect and I have subsequently taken that advice and setup a User Account.

At the moment the User Account remains an absolute 'bare-bones' entity, but today I used it as a 'Rescue' platform.

This morning when I tried to logon, I got the message that is the Heading and Subject of this Tutorial, but in my case, this was affecting my Administrator Account. I attempted all sorts of workarounds to try and fix the problem, and eventually came to the conclusion that the only way to resolve the issue was with a complete System Restore. I eventually completed the System Restore by using the new User Account and running it as the Administrator.

I had managed in the meantime to install a 'hotmail' email account into the User Account, and was able to PM a couple of Members of the Vista and W7 Forums. Thankfully 'Airbot' confirmed my thoughts, and the subsequent System Restore seems to have been a complete success.

While attempting to fabricate a 'fix', I made notes of the following additional Error Messages that appeared;

1.....Input Personalization Server has Stopped Working.

2.....Location is not available......C:\\Windows\system32\config\system profile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.

I am just happy that I managed to fluke the 'fix' in this case, and will now read the Tutorial in full, and have a read of the MS KB reference as well........just in case.

Questions from all this;

- Is it possible to setup an additional Administrator Account, in addition to the one User Account [ie 2xAdmin. 1xUser]?

- Should I now load up the User Account with everything that I have in The Admin. Account? And if so, a pointer to Tutorial[s] will help.

- I have concerns here too about the available space remaining on my C and D Drives......will that be an issue in itself?

Cheers Shawn.

sassofalco

Hi Tony,

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

It would not be a bad idea to have an extra administrator account created to use to repair your computer with if something should happen to your main default administrator account. If hard drive space is an issue, then it is not neccessary to load anything else on the extra user accounts since you use your default administrator account instead. Unless you use the Standard user account to work from for security reasons, then you should be fine with just (2xAdmin) accounts instead. This will help save HDD space.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

G'Day Shawn,

Thanks for the reply. I've not yet had any specific security issues with just the single Admin. Account that I've been using all along so far, but for that added security, a second Account is not a bad idea.....It's just that where before I was ignorant of the need for a User Account, with that knowledge now, I didn't realise that the second Account could also be an Admin.

As an aside, I have now installed the Acronis software, and intend to do regular 'clone copies' of my entire system to my Maxtor Ext HD. So there's some additional security there too.

One query though....when I'm in the User Account, how do I give it access to all the stuff in the Admin. Account, including the Desktop? etc. This is where my non-existant brain turns into custard. Is this a part of permissions, and access to various programs on an 'on-demand' UAC basis?

Tony.

Tony,

Usually when you try to access it from the Standard user account you will get a UAC prompt. Typing in the Admin's password should allow you to then gain access, but it will have to be done each time you try to access it though. Even more reason to use another Admin. account instead. Once you UAC approve it the first time for that location, you will not need to again from one Admin. account to another.

Thanks Shawn,

Ahhhhhh! That's MY kind of Account......guess that I now have lots of work to do. Never ending in one form or another.

As always, your advice taken on board, with many thanks.

Tony.

You're welcome Tony. Have fun.

I have tryed to do the step and I am affraid that it diddent soulve the problem. Anything else I can do. Main problem whit thes is that I got some files on the account I really need so I cant just delete the user

Troels

Hello Troels, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if the items listed in the yellow TIP box at the top of the tutorial may be able to help instead then.

Hope this helps,
Shawn