Thursday, June 27, 2013

Vista - User Profile failed to login

Click Start, ->regedit 

Now in in regidit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

In the navigation pane, find folder that begins with S-1-5 (SID key) followed by a long number.

Click each S-1-5 folder, locate the ProfileImagePath entry in the details pane, and then double-click to make sure that this is the user account profile that has the error.

If you have two folders (ie one is duplicate) starting with S-1-5 followed by some long numbers and one of them ended with .bak, you have to rename the .bak folder.

Ie-  Right-click the folder without .bak, and then click Rename. Type .ba, and then press ENTER.

again right-click the folder that is named .bak, and then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.

now again right-click the folder that is named .ba, and then click Rename. Change the .ba to .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.

Now Double-click the folder without .bak in the details pane, double-click RefCount, type 0, and then click OK.

Then Click the folder without .bak, in the details pane, double-click State, type 0, and then click OK.

Close Registry Editor and Restart