Can't log on to my user profile.

jennihen

Hi!
I'm can't log on to my user profile on the Home PC. I am the adminstrator.
I've got work on there which was due in on Friday:eek::eek:
It just says The User Profile Service failed the logon.
User Profile cannot be loaded.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Browntoa

is it XP ?? or Vista ??

Browntoa

seems to be Vista ??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215

you are looking at option 1 or option 2

suspect option 2 may be the answer for you , copy your data to a new profile

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215

if yours is the only user profile on the PC you need to boot into safe mode

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm

and then choose the Adminstrator user profile that will appear (should not have a password unless you set one !!)

add a new user profile and then restart and log onto the new profile

jennihen

Vista - it did it before but I can't remember how we fixed it!!

jennihen

Gulp!

Thank you. It might take sometime!!

Browntoa

worse case we can access data with a linux boot CD

birkee

I had this awhile ago with Windows 7 / 64 bit. My user profile as Admintrator had disappeared, so it couldn't load it.
Able to access PC via a non administrator account, but wasn't allowed to do anything about it as a result.
Did a reinstall from a back up, and created another Administrator account called "back door", which will allow me to access via that if it happens again.

Windows 7 is a pain. I've had other files disappearing too, notably from my genealogy files. I've just replaced them from my back-ups.
Whether they have become 'hidden files' I don't know, because I just restore them.

birkee

In fact, having mentioned it, I'll see if I have the files twice now, one hidden, and one normal.

Update:
Just checked and I already have 'show hidden files' checked, so they HAVE disappeared.

jennihen

The kids have now told me that a message flashed up saying I had a time limit to change my password but I didn't see it . . .
Maybe thats why I can't log on . .

Back door i s a great idea - wish I'd thought of that . .

For some reason the pc won't run a backup either!