Trouble At Mill

[changeling67]

Five days go, I had a user error turn up on my PC. Hubby went into administration and managed to copy the files over to a new profile. Started the computer today and the new profile is missing with my work on it. Tried old profile, got the same message:

'THE USER PROFILE SERVICE SERVICE FAILED THE LOGON. USER PROFILE CANNOT BE LOADED'

Any technical-minded people out there who can give me some advice? Doing what I can by mobile, which is bloody inconvenient >:-(

19:04
Thankfully, we have restored the settings - am perturbed that the damn thing has developed new glitches i.e. instead of 'I will refuse to reboot until you reattach the fiddly wire in the back A-GAIN,' it has now moved on to 'I'm gonna hide all of your files - ha!'

Comments

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

here's the MS KB article on this.

I'd try logging in as the administrator and seeing if you could do any of the UAC stuff for the temporary profile before messing around with registry edits, personally.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your input - we will read through and try to sort it out.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I just googled the message you got, and there is some good advice, although it sounds like it's a pretty involved fix.

Try this:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-security/user-profile-service-service-failed-the-logon-user/4ed66b21-c23e-42f1-98b2-706dcf931fae

Also, thought I'd mention that my spell checker doesn't like 'googled'. I am surprised. That obviously has nothing to do with your problem, but you never know when this information might be useful!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

My PC runs slow before it screws up. It has been a problem since I have had it (circa 2010, think it was one of the first Windows 7). Thanks for the link - I suppose I get jittery when I am slightly behind on coursework and suddenly it finds a new curveball to throw :-/

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know exactly what it's like when you have stuff due. I was printing out my thesis to take in for submitting and the printer stopped working. Printed the first 15 pages and then... nothin'.

I was telling this to Adam's boss at the time. He said he was doing his final revision on his thesis and the computer monitor blew up (this was in the days of CRTs). I mean, like completely blew up, with a crack in the middle of the screen and everything.

They know. They hear us talking and they feel our stress and they know...

Anyway :D Good luck!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Thanks - PC through a wobbly this morning and was put into safe mode, think it asked for an earlier setting thus making my new profile disappear - human error as well as pc, alas. Another profile just done via admin - stuff has been transferred across now, but lost 600 words from my last essay. Will have to improvise :-/