Vista - Unable to create new user account successfully

Hello,
I've seen several posts on this same topic here, but none of them resolved in any resolution so I am hoping someone has since figured it out.

In Vista, I am able to login using my own account which is an Administrator account. Then via Control Panel, use the User Accounts tool to create new account, Standard or Administrator. The tool appears to complete the action properly. The new accounts appear listed in the User Accounts tool and show up on the login screen. However, I am unable to log in to any of them. Even when giving them a password during creation. Furthermore, there appears to be no system folders for the account...i.e. no 'My Documents', 'Desktop', My Music, etc. under c:\Users

Has anyone figured out why the Vista User Accounts tool cannot complete the account creation properly?

Interesting to note. I changed two things that have allowed me to create new accounts successfully.

1)During all previous tries I would create the account and then once created the next step I would do is change the account by adding a password. (The result being when I then went to login with that new username and password I would get an error)

2)I had previously shared out the 'Users' folder, typically, c:\Users so that I could sync the My Documents etc with my other machine. This possibly could have created a permissions issue for Vista to establish the new account, but I don't think so and here is why.

This time, when I created a new account I didn't give it a password. Once done, I went and checked the c:\Users folder and still no profile folders had been added for the new account. I logged out and selected the new account for login. Naturally, no password was required and Vista imediately went to 'Creating New User Profile'...and there it was under c:\Users. I was then able to subsequently add the password.

Bottom line : When creating a new user account, don't add a password. Add it after you login in the firsttime without it.

dan596;4327373 Wrote:I am having this exact same problem. Nothing I've tried has worked.
Still no user account folders and cannot logon to anything created.

Has there been an answer/fix to this?

thanks!


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