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Just want help on an error message. I tried to log on to my admin account. The error message I received was "The User Profile Service service failed the log on. User profile cannot be loaded." Is any one familiar with this problem?

Hiya- I have inherited a netbook from a deceased relative. FINALLY got the password. Running Win7. My relative's name is the only user name and owners name on the computer. I would like to use it without being constantly reminded of him. Is it possible to change the main name without a total...

Hi all please can someone help?. I am running win 7 64bit and all of a sudden all my desktop icons disappeared along with my start menu and my right click function. Ctrl-alt-del brings up the option to access the task manger but it fails to display it. safe mode is fine and when I create a...

Describes how to customize a default user profile or a mandatory user profile in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which you cannot find the excluded default folders in the user profile if you use user credentials to log on a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based client computer in a domain environment. These folders are excluded from the... More...

How do I edit the line of type under my name. I have the same thing in my sig so I'd like to say something different up there. I've looked but I can't find where you can change it. Mike

My hard drive died. My recovery disks were for Vista, so after getting a new drive and running them, I upgraded to Windows 7, which is what I had done before. I established my user profile of TVZ. I created a "TVZ" folder under "Users", then put all my backed up files in it. However, none of my...

I can't great new accounts or activate the guest account, but was able before. When I create a new account, Windows creates the new user login icon. When I try to login to that account I get this error: "The user profile service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." then the account...

Troubleshoot the error: "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded”, on Windows 7 and Windows Vista computers. Link Removed

I was trying to get into a hidden subfolder to delete a file from a old program. It asked for admin personon's. I hit OK and it look about 10min for windows to update the folder. The problem is that after that now all my folders in my profile are gone. My music, pictures, and everything. I...

Hello, all. My gadgets disappeared. They do not look like black boxes or anything, they just do not show up at all. The right-click gadgets menu is simply empty, there's no gadgets there at all, not even the default ones. Just to be clear, I already have done the following things: - checked if...

I have a computer with three partitions, the first with 100GB exclusively to Windows 7 (already installed), a partition for applications and another partition for personal files (photos, text, music, movies, etc.). I wonder how to configure the location of "My Documents", so that all users...

I recently installed an SSD in my laptop and moved the HDD to the secondary drive (I have room for two). I did a few of the prescribed steps for optimal SSD usage (moved user profiles to HDD, moved temp directory and page file, etc). Initially I was able to image only my C drive (about 30GB...

Recently I reinstalled windows 7 Ultimate. So, I got one of those "windows.old" folders with all my old stuff in it. I take all my stuff out, but for some reason it wont let me delete the windows old folder. It says "This is no longer located in C:\ Verify the items location and try again"...

I am having problems with a Windows 7 64bit user profile. The computer will not login into windows at all. When I login it sits for awhile and then just goes back to the login prompt. There is only one account on the computer and its an administrator so I can't use the administrator account...

Two users Turn on computer user #1 starts normal Switch to user #2 50% of times logs on as temporary profile Must shutdown and log on again. I've posted this before and have never gotten any help

I need to move the sata connection for my drive "D" on the motherboard, however after moving it Windows 7 won't boot. Hi, I am looking for some assistance in resolving this issue, thanks for any help in advance. Gateway LX6820, 8GB Ram Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM 64 bit Drive "C"- Intel...

Bit if an odd one I'm hoping to get some help with... I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x64 and have been for some time now on this particular machine. I use remote desktop to access the machine from elsewhere and it's always worked fine up until recently (late March/Early April). There was a single...

Hi all, I was hoping one of you kind people could advise me... I shut down my laptop last night and everything was working just fine. When I booted up this morning however, a message about windows update flashed up (never seen that before and it was too quick to read it properly), BEFORE...

Hi Ok hope someone can figure out what is going on with my system, I have a very odd issue when i first boot my system I am unable to open any 32bit applications :( when observing task manager the process opens and closes imediatly with no error. If i warm reboot the machine and log back they...