Re: Vista Home Premium: New user account failing to load user profile

I would rename to something like OldDefault

A point: Have you modified the security for the system? I.e. have you turned off UAC, changed permissions/ownership for system controlled area? ( It helps others to understand your configuration).
Also do you have virus/malware protection programs that purport to 'protect' your system from changes? Turning off or disabling these features may help.

Looking out on web there seem to be others with similar problems but I have not seen solutions.

Here are a couple of more ideas, well worth their cost.

in regedit,
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
open the various S-1-5-..... until you find the one that has c:\users\your new user as 'ProfileImagePath', delete this entry. (the entire S-1-5-.....)

Make sure that there aren't any more profiles with this entry.

delete the c:\users\your new user folder entirely.

shutdown and restart

verify that there is no c:\users\your new user or entry in the registry that you deleted

now try to create the new user


Also if (whoops - when) you get your problem solved do post back what you did to solve it!!! The next person would be much appreciative.


"Metajoe" <Metajoe.3a83d8e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Metajoe.3a83d8e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What would cause the template to go haywire on me then? And what about
that "Default" folder? What would I have to rename it to? I already
have a folder for the account I created.

No, no, it's ok, at least you've tried to help me. Of all the other
topics I've made for this, the only other person to reply offered an
encryption program for my account to use, which is a last resort for
me.

So thank you for throwing out an idea and replying to this thread. I
appreciate any help I can get. Vista doesn't seem to be an OS people
are willing to help others with, from what I'm seeing.

'Michael Walraven[_3_ Wrote:
;770922']Sounds like the template that is used to create a new user has
become hosed.
I THINK that is at c:\users\Default
(need to show system/hidden files). It might be that if you rename that

folder it MIGHT recreate it with default settings. However you should
probably wait and get better advice from someone who knows more. Sorry
that
I was a dead end for helping you.

Michael
(BTW, you are more likely to get assistance if you include problem and

replies in each message. They can get pretty long but then someone
seeing
the conversation can step it and help. For instance from parts of the
thread
included here, no one would know what your problem is or what other
things
you have tried.)


"Metajoe" Metajoe.3a6ec10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
news:Metajoe.3a6ec10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I deleted the account and folder and tried again. Same thing. Some
mail error message comes up and nothing happens afterwards. The only
processes that I saw running in the task manager were;

csrss.exe
dwm.exe
taskmgr.exe
winlogon.exe

That's it. Tried pulling up explorer.exe and that failed. No
errors,
but it wouldn't actually start up.




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Metajoe

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