Re: The User Profile Service failed the logon.

can someone please help me with a user orofile failed the logon issue John Bailey;204437 Wrote: <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> I've been using Windows Vista Ultimate for almost three months now, and
> all
> of a sudden tonight I couldn't log on to my laptop. Every time I tried
> I
> received the message "The User Profile Service failed the logon. The
> User
> Profile failed to load." I had successfully logged on to it only five
> hours
> earlier, so I did not understand what could be going on.
>
> Fortunately after Googling the error message (I originally used
> Microsoft
> Live Searct, but did not get any results), I found someone who had a
> similar
> error and had found that his profile had entered a backup state. I
> logged on
> with my domain administrator account (it's good to be the king
> sometimes) and
> examined the keys under HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrent
> UserProfileList and was able to find the key for my user id SID. Sure
> enough, the key had a ".bak" appended to it and there was an identical
> one
> that was set to a temp directory. I renamed the other key, removed the
> ".bak" from mine, and changed the State property under my key to 0.
> This
> allowed me to log in.
>
> Does anyone know what might have caused this issue? If this is a bug,
> its a
> pretty severe one, as I can just imagine a help desk trying to resolve
> this
> over the phone with their laptop users who all of a sudden can't log
> in.
>
> Thanks.
>
> *Edit*
> *Solution can be found here :-
> *'*'
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