user profile service

The fastest safe fix for “The User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded” is to sign in through Safe Mode or another administrator account, back up the affected profile, then either repair the matching profile registry entry or create a clean replacement profile and...

LegacyHive is a newly public, unpatched local privilege-escalation flaw in the Windows User Profile Service, or ProfSvc, that can let a standard Windows user coerce a SYSTEM-level component into loading another user’s registry hive. The immediate concern is not a remote break-in: attackers first...