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

Yea, but I Dont have a restore point before this:/

Dinnsen,

It may be beyond repair, but you can attempt a Repair install to see if that will work for you. I would recommend backing up anything you do not want to lose to be safe. This tutorial will show you how to if needed.

Repair Install For Vista

If that does not help, then the only option is a clean reinstall.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

So, I have just now made a new user and deleted the old one and I still have all my files. But the computer is slow!! :/

Dinnsen,

I would recommend that you backup what you do not want to lose and do a clean reinstall. It appears that your computer is beyond repair, and it may be faster than attempting to.

Sorry,
Shawn

okay Thanks for the help!

Your welcome Dinnsen.

Sorry,
Shawn

Hi Shawn

Same deal happened to me yesterday and if it wasn't for your advice, would have reloaded vista as per Dell technical support advice.

Thanks Heaps all working fine.

Tried to go a step further for the ownership of the administrator account and didn't see same as what you were referring to..... job is only half done, will this matter?

Thanks again

baz

Hi Baz,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

I'm happy to hear that you have this profile error fixed now. If everything is working fine, then you will probably not need to do anything else.

However, I'm not sure what you meant about "ownership of the administrator account". Could you give more details on what you meant and what you tried to do?


Thank you,
Shawn

Hi, this is what i was talking about,

Option Two in Method Two of this tutorial:

Take Ownership of file

Baz,

By default you have full ownership of your user account which is basically just the user folders. Everything else is owned by TrustedInstaller or System which is shared by all users.

If you show Full control checked for your user account and everything is working fine, then I would not worry about it.

Shawn