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Hey all, I've been looking around the forums for a while for a similar thread and couldn't find one so i thought i'd just post it. So. I am currently playing a game (ArmA 2) that has real issues with allowing a profile change. When you first install the game it just grabs the Users...

I want to delete the default pictures, the user picture viewed at startup. Where are they stored? Jim

I am/have tried to create a new user account, specifically to take the place of a suspected corrupt user account (per MS Moderator posts re Excel not responding repeatedly when copying). I have looked around the web, MS support sites, and read posts all over a couple of forums and am trying to...

So I turn on my comp as usual, but this time after typing in my password to my admin profile a message appears - "preparing your desktop" - which doesn't appear when my profile loads correctly. My desktop appears and my desktop icons, quickstart programs, wallpaper, all the user settings are...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

I am using Windows 7 for my home PC. Upon clicking on my admin profile and typing in my password, the following message appears, "The user profile service service failed the logon." I can only logon to my wife's account (that does not have a password nor admin capabilities). When I try to...

On starting up windows it asks for the password, which I duly enter, but then I get a notice come up saying. The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. This have not happened before, how do I rectify the problem please.

Recently my girlfriend's computer had the error, User Profile Won't Load... When I try to do a system restore it asks for her password and I put it in then it says the restore programs cannot be found. At the same time on an alternate profile she has an ip conflict problem and I cannot begin to...

I've just bought a new PC last friday. I installed and copied tons of stuff from my old PC over. I have a habit of keeping everything on my desktop. However, today, after a virus scan, i restarted my PC. It prompted me to "install Windows 7" weird eh? Anyway, after i plugged in all information...

All, I support a large population users on XP. We are working on rolling out Win7 Pro to all users. We are not performing in-place upgrade but providing new machine to users ( new image and hardware). We have a standard image with few 3rd party software on the image. Issue: We have...

I am trying to troubleshoot this user's LaptopLink Removed, it's a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. The user encountered a " Windows cannot load user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system." Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service...

I've already stumbled onto an issue with a users's profile and am trying to apply what I would typically do in XP to Windows 7 but it's stuck on wanting to load the Temporary profile for this user. So as a novice of this sort, how can I recreate a users profile? I am new to this place so if I...

I delete a user account profile for the first user of the notebook. I found that anytime a new software is installed, it keeps suggesting me the old user name. I search the registry changing all instances of the original user name but found one that I cannot change: "OwnerMachineName". Any...

Hi guys, I recently acquired a virus on my system which has made my user profile disappear (when clicking on Windows Explorer then C: and then finally 'Users' folder. All of the data is still on the drive as it is as full as it was before). I am running Windows 7 and got around this...

I have WIndows 7 Ultimate and when I go into User Accounts in Control Panel I click on "change your picture" and I am only able to use the Windows 7 pictures. When I click on "browse for more pictures" nothing happens. Any ideas?

I have had repeated trouble with my Windows 7 - this error message occurs about every 3rd time I log in: Exception EReadError in module ACQTMAPP.exe at 0001BFCB. Error reading TrayIcon1.visible: cannot read shell notification icon. Can someone tell me if this is a Windows error or some other...

I have one application that insists on storing log files and profiles at: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local. When I try to moe it to my E:\ partition it gets hung with the error message: I have tried deleting all non-essential processes within Task Manager to no avail. Any ideas...

I am experiencing problems running Windows 7 (desktop background is frozen, gadgets and utilites files are missing etc.) yet when I create a new user account then log onto that, Windows 7 runs fine (fix suggested by Cybercore). My question is, can I simply transfer settings and files from the...