For the people that get screwed over the first part and get the (The user profile service failed the Login , user profile cannot be loaded) message, which happened to me btw, do these steps to fix it: 1. Restart your computer and as soon as your computer comes back on, repeatedly press the F8 button to get to the boot screen (Depends on you computer it could be another button, F8 worked on mine, google yours if it didnt work) 2. You will see an option called Safe Mode: With Networking, press that (Dont worry if your computer looks weird when you log it, its supposed to) 3. Once your in, see this guys video, the part where you go to your registery (regedit) and get to your Profile lists as he shows in the video 4. Remember when he said to switch the .bak from one of those 2 files to the other? switch them back to how they where before :) basically you will see two files with long names and the only difference will be the .bak in the end, delete the .bak from the first one (or second one) and place it on the second one (or the first one) 5. As he showed in the video, the one now after you did the last step WITHOUT the .bak, modify the refcount and stat to 0. 6. Restart and login normally 7. Like this comment, if this works to let me know I helped someone out by doing this As for the solution for the temporary profile? Still trying to figure it out myself, both parts of this video didnt work for me, not saying this guy is fake or ANYTHING like that, its just this solution doesn't work with all types of devices or with everyone
What is the "State" supposed to be? Cuz I saw lotsa people with 0, as is in this vid, but mine is 32768. Is it safe to change that to 0? Thanks in advance, and I hope you've fixed your issue by now.
Restart your pc. Somehow launch the start up repair( if you can’t search for it. It’s too easy) Wait for sometime and click recover. Restart and it solves.
Thank you sooooo much!!! I've called professionals and hired people and talked to who knows how many people over the phone trying to fix this, and you helped me first try!! you are the BOMB dude!! thanks a bunch!
@Daniel Gan Your hard drive needs to be removed and checked from a secondary computer with the hard drive manufacturers software to see if it's healthy. Good luck!
After doing the exact same procedure and i tried to restart my laptop and when i sign in back it keep saying The user profile service service failed the sign in User profile cannot be loaded Help!
Thank you sooooo much!!! I have been looking for a solution for 48 hours in different forums and your video solved my problem. You are really kind to use your time to share solutions that are so helpful. Wholehearted thanks!!
Hello, I have the same problem right now and I followed exactly what you did in this video, but when I tried to restart it. I cannot access to any of my profile. Now, I cannot use to computer. Do you know how to solve this? Is my laptop broken now?? Please help me. If I sent it to a repair shop will it cost a lot of money to fix my laptop??
Thank you man. It happened a week ago to me - had no time to check for a solution (so I did avoid to use the system trying not to make it worst) until a few hours ago, when I found your's, sound about right - I tried and it WORKED. Some minor differences were: - the account name was the same after get the the "preparing your desktop" message; - desktop and base settings were the same as after I installed the system few years ago, like even the scrolling function dissipated or sound settings etc.; But everything get fixed with your 1st method. Big thank you!!!
@alwayafix: After rename and other settings when I logged of the user, I get a msg saying "The profile Service service failed the Logon. User profile cannot be loaded." What do I do now? Kindly give a suggestion as early as possible. Thanks in Advance
@@CradleEpiscopalian56 you mean all 100 videos I have posted to help people are all fake? Calm down explain your problem and I will do my best to help, otherwise take into service and pay to get it fixed
A quick note. If this is a domain PC and a non admin account you will need to make the user an admin either on the DC or through the cmd prompt Net localgroup administrator (domain)\username /add. Hope this helps, thanks for the video !
Thank you so much for taking the time to help, you are an angel.. I started my computer like normal but when I logged on, it was like a totally different computer.. The first step in this video helped me and so far everything is back to normal. Thank you so much! Almost gave me a heart attack..
Thx mate, did just paniced when i logged on and everything was gone. RUclipsd the profile problem and this video came up. 5 min and it worked. Sooo thankful 👍👍👍
+jagjit singh kalra Follow the instructions in the second part of the video, create a new user profile, copy over your files and delete the damaged profile.
You have terribly FAILED To answer the questions below. Like a lot of people mentioned, we cannot log on. After following the steps, it says "The user profile service failed to logon user profile cannot be loaded" WHAT DO WE DO FROM THERE????
@TVMusicandLife Before you get a replacement laptop, have you tried to do a factory restore? Please note, this will retsore the laptop to factory default and all your data will be wiped, so make sure you have a back-up first.
alwaysafix yah! it happens to me also cannot access the windows then i had to modify it again in safemode and bring it back to what is it then i can able to login again but in temporary loggin file again means your tutorial didnt help!
Obviously your original profile is beyond repair. I suggest creating a brand new profile from scratch with administrator rights and then copy all data from the original profile and then deleting the said profile. Good luck!
Thank you so much man. During this I was freaking out because I thought I lost years of hard work. You're voice calmed me down and walked me through it. Thanks!!!
Absolute legend!!!! This has now given me access to all my files again!! I can now actually complete my presentation for my interview next Tuesday with no worries!!! Thanks so much! Subscribed!
Thanks Man!!!! it worked!!!! my laptop had updated today and it send me to a temporary profile and i thought i had lost everything so i followed your steps and looks like its back to normal.....Thanks Agian Brother!!! 🙏🏽👏🏽
Thanks! I will just add that if you do not see the profile with the ".bak" termination then simply continue on and check the "state" and "refcound" entries and ensure they are both set to zero.
thank you it worked. thing is now that the profile i have seems very foreign to me as i have been using the temp profile for a very long time. for all those guys who finished the code running in safe mode, make sure you shut down your computer first then log into your profile instead of logging of and on after safe mode or it wont work.
Omgee. I thought it will not work on mine because I could not logged in when I did the first option but then I relogged in until it worked. Thank yooouuu! It saved me a lot! My files are very important. 100% working.
Hello, I have the same problem right now and I followed exactly what you did in this video, but when I tried to restart it I cannot access to any of my profile now I cannot use to Computer Do you know how to solve the problem please help me
Thank you so much! I thought my hard drive suddenly wiped its self and I lost all of my 8 year old photos! But I did this and it really worked! I cant thank you enough!
Hi , in regedit, there you say "two profile" well i have 3 profile, what i should have to do ? two called with 1001 ant the end and one is with 1000 at the end of the name. I was got wrong setting some days ago, when i log to my profile, some programs was deleted special from DISK C . please help
you are amazing ! although i did get a message saying sign in failed after signing out, a quick reboot and it was as though nothing had been wrong ! you saved my sanity. i thank you.
omg thanks so much I was so worried that I lost everything and its really been stressing me out lately but now its all fixed thank you so much and keep up the great work!
i did the first step and restarted the pc now i cant even log in. The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. Thank you soo much dude
Please someone reply me.what is a temporary profile?where did this came from and why is this temporary profile in my computer.it appears everyday when i turn on my pc.have i made something bad to my pc?is my pc damanged?help me.sorry for my bad english
+alwaysafix please answer my computer is messed up because of deleting .bak and I can't even get back in the that regedit now my computer doesn't work at all please help what can I do
First, you need to make sure that your hard drive is healthy. Your hard drive needs to be removed and connected to another computer via a usb adaptor, so that you can back up your data first and foremost and then run disk diagnostics to make sure your disk is 100% healthy. If the disk passes disk diagnostics, I suggest you run factory restore and then reinstall your data. Good luck.
That was one of the best solution for my problem. We kind of new to AD and some times take 4 to 5 hrs to restore the client profile to original. This way is SUPERB, easy fast. THANKS a million.
Thank you so much! The first solution worked for me without being logged on safe mode. May I ask how did this problem happen in the first place? It's pretty spooky when I first saw it.
Thank you sir, your video helped. I found the .bak registry key and removed the .bak from it, along with the other options you said and it worked. Thanks!
i've had a temporary profile in my main account for a few months and i just wanna know if this will also restore my data and files when i perform it. will it?
Perfect fix thank you very much!! This should be shared around a lot more, there are several plans for fixing this problem that are way out of whack!! Only thing is, the "changing RefCount and State values to 0" doesn't seem to change anything, I went back in after and the values are the exact same as they were before...
After fixing the Profile from being in Temporary Profile Mode from the Profile Crash though, it would no longer delete the things inside it, when logging off, turning off the Computer, or restarting the Computer, etc.. Right?
So I followed the comment to get back in, in safe mode, did what commented said. Restarted and still no recovery! WTH?? I could see my old desktop in safe mode but not after process and restart. Help!
Is mine completely corrupted? I can't seem to find it in C Drive/Users and when I go to regedit it just shows the .bak version only... It used to show the other one but then I restarted the laptop because that did not work... I'm so confused lol
Those who are having logon failure restart system in safe mode using cmd type regedit and reverse what all you have done previously and your system will come to state as it was before watching video.
i tried this and it did not work and now I'm at a challenging situation. alwaysafix if you can please see if you have any suggestions, it would mean the world to me. I tried addressing the registry using "regedit" to go into the "Profile List" and remove the .bak from the original profile and rename the temporary profile with the .bak. After I set the "State" to "0" and the "RefCount" to "0", I restarted to see if it recovered my Profile but it didn't work. Then I tried a "System Restore" and I successfully restored to earlier that day BUT the settings of the Temporary Profile were kept. I was no longer using a Temporary Profile but the settings and Profile was still blank as if it was a temporary. As of now, I can see in my "D: Drive" that my old Desktop and its data is still there, but the one that is showing is the one that showed up as a temporary desktop. All my settings are gone in Google Chrome, my Start Screen, My Desktop Background, and Taskbar etc. Is there a way to fix the registry so it shows the original Desktop instead of the "Temporary" desktop? If I look into my "D: Drive" and inside the "Desktop" folder, all my original shortcuts and files are there. I just need to make the original profile visible and load the original desktop instead of this Temporary Desktop. I was thinking maybe undo-ing the System restore as I am no longer loading a temporary profile but the temporary profile settings are still showing up. I find that risky and look to you for any registry know-how that may solve this issue?
This message started coming out in the screen. I can't log in "unauthorized change was made to windows. Windows has discovered a change that will result a limited windows functionality " can you help please
Hi. I done everything like on yout tutorial and now I cannot go into Windows... It says that User account cannot be upload... I think the problem is when I typed O (zero) in State... Because i tried multiple times without that and it kepp logged me into temporary account... Now when i turn on the computer im not able to go to desktop becasu Sign in User profile is rejected...
I've done the second method and im using a new account now. I've transferred all files. But my google chrome bookmarks are gone.. Any way to recover them? Also right click mouse kinda has a 5 second delay
Hi, thanks for the tip. A couple of questions though: 1) Can I delete the .bak registry entry afterwards IF this procedure works? 2) Should I do this procedure in Safe Mode regardless if I get the message that the User Profile Service failed? Thanks in advance.
Oh my God...... thanks a lot!! It's been days and I'm getting desperate in finding way to fix this problem. Thank you so much!! Btw what probably caused this problem?? Is it because my Windows isn't installed perfectly? Is it safe to do these steps over again if (hopefully not) this happens in the future?? Thanks. Again.
Do I need to be on safe mode for method one? I did it on safe mode and when i log off, my files were back but I was still in safe mode. So I restarted, but then the problem comes back.
@alwaysafix Thank you so so much for this video, I still cannot believe that I managed to get my profile back. I thought I had lost everything and got very upset about it. Then I decided to give your video a try on RUclips and I am so releived.. I can breathe again haha..
I have tried doing this an even when I create a new profile it says preparing desktop any insight on this and another thing when I go into safe mode it will show my profile an all contents
After this step you'll failed to login your profile, you'll need to: 1. restart your pc and hit repeat f8 button 2. select Safemode 3. go to regedit and follow these steps again 4. HKLM - Software - Microsoft - Windows NT - CurrentVersion - ProfileList 5. Reverse the extension ".bak" for those two folders, like the steps shown here 6. Now your done in renaming, click the folder without ".bak" 7. Select and double click RefCount and set the Value "0" 8. Select and double click state and set the Value "0" 9. Restart your laptop/PC and problem solved. Note: Do this step in Safemode. Hope these will help.
Um so I tried doing the .bak thing when I restarted my computer it didn't work, I checked the regedit and then checked the profiles and the .bak was the temp file and there was no file to my actual file of my .bak with my old profile, is there anyway to get it back??? Please help
hello this has happened to me yesterday :( I will try your first method because i don't feel like copying all the data because i might miss some data by accident so i will try avoid the 'create new user'method if i can
If you create a new user, your files from previous users will not be affected, only if you run a factory restore can you lose your data. Thanks for watching.
alwaysafix Thank you for providing a meaningful video. However, I don't know why I have followed your second method, the computer doesn't allow me to enter user2. It keeps forcing me to log in with the original user, I can't manage to make another user to restore my original desktop setting. Is my computer getting totally out of order? Looking forward to your reply.
Hello my friend . I would like to thank you very much for your help. I also would like to ask you something about my situation. I did all the steps you showed but in the final step i found 3 .bak files. From those 3 , the two of them had the copy files which i renamed as you said. The third one , the one with no copy file , i left it as it was. The problem solved but i would like to know if i should do anything else. Thank you again.
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For the people that get screwed over the first part and get the (The user profile service failed the Login , user profile cannot be loaded) message, which happened to me btw, do these steps to fix it:
1. Restart your computer and as soon as your computer comes back on, repeatedly press the F8 button to get to the boot screen (Depends on you computer it could be another button, F8 worked on mine, google yours if it didnt work)
2. You will see an option called Safe Mode: With Networking, press that (Dont worry if your computer looks weird when you log it, its supposed to)
3. Once your in, see this guys video, the part where you go to your registery (regedit) and get to your Profile lists as he shows in the video
4. Remember when he said to switch the .bak from one of those 2 files to the other? switch them back to how they where before :) basically you will see two files with long names and the only difference will be the .bak in the end, delete the .bak from the first one (or second one) and place it on the second one (or the first one)
5. As he showed in the video, the one now after you did the last step WITHOUT the .bak, modify the refcount and stat to 0.
6. Restart and login normally
7. Like this comment, if this works to let me know I helped someone out by doing this
As for the solution for the temporary profile? Still trying to figure it out myself, both parts of this video didnt work for me, not saying this guy is fake or ANYTHING like that, its just this solution doesn't work with all types of devices or with everyone
Thnx dude for saving me :)
Life saver
I believe in angels😍
What is the "State" supposed to be? Cuz I saw lotsa people with 0, as is in this vid, but mine is 32768. Is it safe to change that to 0?
Thanks in advance, and I hope you've fixed your issue by now.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. Words are powerless to express my gratitude.
Dear MicroSoft, how does this even happen? Seriously? WTF!?
2 words The system is damaged because of Bad Sector...
4 words.. Your Files Are Corrupt!!!
5 words they make useless updates that destroy your files/computer
6 words im dumbass and downloaded malwarebytes twice
7 words it dont work when i delete the .bak thing
Please tell me this I did all of this and it says - The User Profile Service failed the logon.
User profile cannot be loaded.
please help
See another video
Sir the user profile service failed the logon
I just solved this problem.
Restart your pc. Somehow launch the start up repair( if you can’t search for it. It’s too easy) Wait for sometime and click recover. Restart and it solves.
Thank you sooooo much!!! I've called professionals and hired people and talked to who knows how many people over the phone trying to fix this, and you helped me first try!! you are the BOMB dude!! thanks a bunch!
+Vannddett Blue Happy days! Much appreciated and congratulations on your fix.
@Daniel Gan Your hard drive needs to be removed and checked from a secondary computer with the hard drive manufacturers software to see if it's healthy. Good luck!
just do a startup repair...
that helped me
where we will find startup repair
Are you South African?
alwaysafix Help I get black background loading is to slow and Google chrome is restarstarded
Error renaming key.. Please fix this
The first option worked perfect for me. Thanks, spent 6 months trying to correct this. So frustrated I almost went to the GEEK squad!
So much better fixing it yourself, thanks for watching
After doing the exact same procedure and i tried to restart my laptop and when i sign in back it keep saying
The user profile service service failed the sign in
User profile cannot be loaded
Help!
Hlo
Same probl. With me whats i do
Yo
What to do now?
Thank you sooooo much!!! I have been looking for a solution for 48 hours in different forums and your video solved my problem. You are really kind to use your time to share solutions that are so helpful. Wholehearted thanks!!
Much appreciated for the comments and glad to be of help. Thanks for watching.
Hello, I have the same problem right now and I followed exactly what you did in this video, but when I tried to restart it. I cannot access to any of my profile. Now, I cannot use to computer. Do you know how to solve this? Is my laptop broken now?? Please help me. If I sent it to a repair shop will it cost a lot of money to fix my laptop??
start windows but in safe mode and use the backup of the regedit if you have it
It's Your Operating System, Not Your Laptop.
I have too same problem like you
Same now i canot accesa the user account
Restarting your system should reslove this issue.
Thank you man.
It happened a week ago to me - had no time to check for a solution (so I did avoid to use the system trying not to make it worst) until a few hours ago, when I found your's, sound about right - I tried and it WORKED.
Some minor differences were:
- the account name was the same after get the the "preparing your desktop" message;
- desktop and base settings were the same as after I installed the system few years ago, like even the scrolling function dissipated or sound settings etc.;
But everything get fixed with your 1st method.
Big thank you!!!
Congratulations on your fix and thanks for watching. Yes the 1st method usually works for most.
You're my hero.
You are my hero right now. I've been trying to figure this out for like 6 months now.
Happy days, much appreciated and thanks for watching!
For surely!!
@alwayafix: After rename and other settings when I logged of the user, I get a msg saying "The profile Service service failed the Logon. User profile cannot be loaded." What do I do now?
Kindly give a suggestion as early as possible.
Thanks in Advance
That happened to me as Well??? Please help
+Siddharth Agrawal Try following the instructions in the second half of the video. Create a new user and move over the data from the damaged profile.
+niclas dyhr Try following the instructions in the second half of the video. Create a new user and move over the data from the damaged profile.
@@alwaysafix YOU'RE A FAKE!!!
@@CradleEpiscopalian56 you mean all 100 videos I have posted to help people are all fake? Calm down explain your problem and I will do my best to help, otherwise take into service and pay to get it fixed
A quick note. If this is a domain PC and a non admin account you will need to make the user an admin either on the DC or through the cmd prompt
Net localgroup administrator (domain)\username /add.
Hope this helps, thanks for the video !
There's three profiles for me help
Go to ur 1st user u create and do the solution it work for me
Thank you so much for taking the time to help, you are an angel..
I started my computer like normal but when I logged on, it was like a totally different computer.. The first step in this video helped me and so far everything is back to normal. Thank you so much! Almost gave me a heart attack..
+John Edvardsen Much appreciated for your comments. Congratulations on your fix and thanks for watching.
Please help me.. I did the instructions and when I log off it says "the user profile service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded"
Aiyu MI the same happens with me help me plz
Me too
I got it back by going to save mode and chabnge it back where it was
Himanshu sharma same with mine... what did u do to repair the damage? how much did it cost??? plz reply... 😣
Sherin Philip I search on RUclips how to repair that problem
Thx mate, did just paniced when i logged on and everything was gone. RUclipsd the profile problem and this video came up. 5 min and it worked. Sooo thankful 👍👍👍
Happy days mate glad this video sorted our your issues. Don't forget to back up.
mine computer after doing following steps... it is saying THE USER PROFILE SERVICE FAILED THE LOGON
+jagjit singh kalra
mine is the same bro
+jagjit singh kalra Follow the instructions in the second part of the video, create a new user profile, copy over your files and delete the damaged profile.
You have terribly FAILED To answer the questions below. Like a lot of people mentioned, we cannot log on. After following the steps, it says "The user profile service failed to logon user profile cannot be loaded" WHAT DO WE DO FROM THERE????
You must do system restore. Restore your computer to an earlier date.
yeah even im getting same
@TVMusicandLife Before you get a replacement laptop, have you tried to do a factory restore? Please note, this will retsore the laptop to factory default and all your data will be wiped, so make sure you have a back-up first.
rob w Good luck and thanks for watching!
It dident work :( it did lock my computer so i cant log in so i got to restart my computer and factory reinstall it.
Joel Bergquist Search for your model and find out the button combination steps to use to initiate factory reset. Good luck.
Now my computer won't let me log in at all....thanks
Try and start with safe mode and then try this procedure again. Good luck!
Safe mode does nothing for so me reason
It could be a faulty hard drive. You need to get that checked out next.
alwaysafix yah! it happens to me also cannot access the windows then i had to modify it again in safemode and bring it back to what is it then i can able to login again but in temporary loggin file again means your tutorial didnt help!
Obviously your original profile is beyond repair. I suggest creating a brand new profile from scratch with administrator rights and then copy all data from the original profile and then deleting the said profile. Good luck!
Thank you so much man. During this I was freaking out because I thought I lost years of hard work. You're voice calmed me down and walked me through it. Thanks!!!
Good luck and keep your important data to avoid future stress. Happy days!
Thank you sooo much man you helped me a lot Subscribed! thanks man!
Much appreciated mate. Thanks for watching.
Lol much appreciated mate and congratulations to you on your fix. Thanks for watching.
Absolute legend!!!! This has now given me access to all my files again!! I can now actually complete my presentation for my interview next Tuesday with no worries!!! Thanks so much! Subscribed!
DubUnderBass Glad this video helped you out and good luck with your interview.
Thanks Man!!!! it worked!!!! my laptop had updated today and it send me to a temporary profile and i thought i had lost everything so i followed your steps and looks like its back to normal.....Thanks Agian Brother!!! 🙏🏽👏🏽
Thanks! I will just add that if you do not see the profile with the ".bak" termination then simply continue on and check the "state" and "refcound" entries and ensure they are both set to zero.
I have solve the same problem after watching your video. Thanks man!
Also thanks to my IT colleague who recommended your this video.
The last assurance was saving many from a meltdown. thank you so much.
No worries
thank you it worked. thing is now that the profile i have seems very foreign to me as i have been using the temp profile for a very long time. for all those guys who finished the code running in safe mode, make sure you shut down your computer first then log into your profile instead of logging of and on after safe mode or it wont work.
Bro I did every thing you said and when I tried to log in it didn't log in please help me
Omgee. I thought it will not work on mine because I could not logged in when I did the first option but then I relogged in until it worked. Thank yooouuu! It saved me a lot! My files are very important. 100% working.
Well done on your fix. Thanks for watching.
MAN YOU DESERVE A DAMN MEDAL FOR THIS!!! I THOUGHT I SCREWED UP MY SISTER'S PC THAN I SOLVED IT BY WATCHING YOUR VIDEO!! THANKS MY DEAR FRIEND!
Much appreciated mate. Congratulations on your fix and thanks for watching.
Hello, I have the same problem right now and I followed exactly what you did in this video, but when I tried to restart it I cannot access to any of my profile now I cannot use to Computer Do you know how to solve the problem please help me
Reg edit never worked for me... but your video did the trick.
Many thanks, man!!
Cheers!
Happy days and congratulations your fix. Thanks for watching!
After trying the first method with no success, the second method worked, thanks a lot!
Your first fix worked like a charm. Thank you. I was starting to be incredibly upset over this :)
Reyavie Well done on your fix and thanks for watching.
Thank you so much!
I thought my hard drive suddenly wiped its self and I lost all of my 8 year old photos! But I did this and it really worked! I cant thank you enough!
Most welcome and glad to be of help.
Hi , in regedit, there you say "two profile" well i have 3 profile, what i should have to do ? two called with 1001 ant the end and one is with 1000 at the end of the name.
I was got wrong setting some days ago, when i log to my profile, some programs was deleted special from DISK C . please help
you are amazing ! although i did get a message saying sign in failed after signing out, a quick reboot and it was as though nothing had been wrong ! you saved my sanity. i thank you.
Congratulations on your fix and thanks for watching!
Dude you're the best computer expert ever! Thx mate, God bless you!
Thank you this video was very helpful in a tight spot. I was requested to rebooted my pc after an AVG update and then this happened.... thanks again.
Dude, you've helped me fix something that made me panic for like an hour or something
Brilliant. It worked. Thank You so much. Had a minor heart attack when I saw that blank profile.
omg thanks so much I was so worried that I lost everything and its really been stressing me out lately but now its all fixed thank you so much and keep up the great work!
Much appreciated and Happy New Year.
alwaysafix Happy New years to you as well!
i did the first step and restarted the pc now i cant even log in. The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. Thank you soo much dude
+dimitaf Jankov Try following the instructions in the second half of the video. Create a new user and move over the data from the damaged profile.
Just wanted to say thanks for the very informative, clear and helpful video. You kept me from having a breakdown. Your instructions worked perfectly.
I did exactly what you said and now my PC says "The user profile Service service failed sign-in.
User profile cannot be loaded"
What should I do?
Me too, any luck?
Please someone reply me.what is a temporary profile?where did this came from and why is this temporary profile in my computer.it appears everyday when i turn on my pc.have i made something bad to my pc?is my pc damanged?help me.sorry for my bad english
What if there is no .bak after the binary numbers? All profiles on this particular training machine lack the .bak identifier.
Thank You so much, damn it’s actually the first time I leave a comment on a tutorial 🔥
Thank u man!!! You're a genius, the world needs people like u.
Much appreciated.
The first metod with switching the names worked for me. Thanks alot, man!
Happy days & congrats on your fix.
+alwaysafix please answer my computer is messed up because of deleting .bak and I can't even get back in the that regedit now my computer doesn't work at all please help what can I do
First, you need to make sure that your hard drive is healthy. Your hard drive needs to be removed and connected to another computer via a usb adaptor, so that you can back up your data first and foremost and then run disk diagnostics to make sure your disk is 100% healthy. If the disk passes disk diagnostics, I suggest you run factory restore and then reinstall your data. Good luck.
That was one of the best solution for my problem. We kind of new to AD and some times take 4 to 5 hrs to restore the client profile to original. This way is SUPERB, easy fast. THANKS a million.
Glad to be of help and congratulations on your fix. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! The first solution worked for me without being logged on safe mode. May I ask how did this problem happen in the first place? It's pretty spooky when I first saw it.
old comment but did you force shut down your computer?
This helped me now. Was really panicking and then i saw this guide. Thank you for making this. earned a sub :)
Plz help me, i changed ____ .bak ,
I restart and i see (The user profile service failed the legon,user profile cannot be loaded.) What i do
I AM AN ABSOLUTE BONEHEAD. I renamed the damn profile, no wonder it didn't work, it was looking for a non-existing profile.
When you switch on the computer and it still logs onto a temporary profile try the fix in the second half of the video.
Thank you sir, your video helped. I found the .bak registry key and removed the .bak from it, along with the other options you said and it worked. Thanks!
I don’t see ref count on my computer 😩
your damn idea make my computer a very big window problem now i am coment you with moblie
i've had a temporary profile in my main account for a few months and i just wanna know if this will also restore my data and files when i perform it. will it?
No.. It is not possible
Perfect fix thank you very much!! This should be shared around a lot more, there are several plans for fixing this problem that are way out of whack!! Only thing is, the "changing RefCount and State values to 0" doesn't seem to change anything, I went back in after and the values are the exact same as they were before...
Glad this sorted out your problem. Thanks for watching.
After fixing the Profile from being in Temporary Profile Mode from the Profile Crash though, it would no longer delete the things inside it, when logging off, turning off the Computer, or restarting the Computer, etc.. Right?
So I followed the comment to get back in, in safe mode, did what commented said. Restarted and still no recovery! WTH?? I could see my old desktop in safe mode but not after process and restart. Help!
thanks a tone..dude..it worked like charm.
you'r a life saver...
I am subscribing your channel right now..
+Rahul K Singh Happy days mate and on your fix. Happy New Year.
So from all those ppl u r the only one that worked with u fuck-off big time Fukuoka
Is mine completely corrupted? I can't seem to find it in C Drive/Users and when I go to regedit it just shows the .bak version only... It used to show the other one but then I restarted the laptop because that did not work... I'm so confused lol
Thank you. You are my hero. Everything's back to normal now.
Happy days mate and thanks for watching.
Do you consider also the step on pressing the key F8 repeatedly on restarting and going on safe mode.
My background is set to black and I cant change it after doing the first process. PLS HELP :(
Those who are having logon failure restart system in safe mode using cmd type regedit and reverse what all you have done previously and your system will come to state as it was before watching video.
When I try to switch the .bak, it doesn't allow me to rename the folders. Is there a way to fix this?
You may have problem in safe mode. At first I tried in safe mode and it doesn't work then I tried in normal mode now it's work.
i tried this and it did not work and now I'm at a challenging situation. alwaysafix if you can please see if you have any suggestions, it would mean the world to me.
I tried addressing the registry using "regedit" to go into the "Profile List" and remove the .bak from the original profile and rename the temporary profile with the .bak. After I set the "State" to "0" and the "RefCount" to "0", I restarted to see if it recovered my Profile but it didn't work. Then I tried a "System Restore" and I successfully restored to earlier that day BUT the settings of the Temporary Profile were kept. I was no longer using a Temporary Profile but the settings and Profile was still blank as if it was a temporary. As of now, I can see in my "D: Drive" that my old Desktop and its data is still there, but the one that is showing is the one that showed up as a temporary desktop. All my settings are gone in Google Chrome, my Start Screen, My Desktop Background, and Taskbar etc.
Is there a way to fix the registry so it shows the original Desktop instead of the "Temporary" desktop? If I look into my "D: Drive" and inside the "Desktop" folder, all my original shortcuts and files are there. I just need to make the original profile visible and load the original desktop instead of this Temporary Desktop.
I was thinking maybe undo-ing the System restore as I am no longer loading a temporary profile but the temporary profile settings are still showing up. I find that risky and look to you for any registry know-how that may solve this issue?
This message started coming out in the screen. I can't log in "unauthorized change was made to windows. Windows has discovered a change that will result a limited windows functionality " can you help please
Fantastic, first option itself solved perfectly. Hatsoff.
You are the greatest person to ever exist. Thank you!
Happy days, much appreciated and thanks for watching.
Thank you so much! ❤ The moment I regot the Original account My Heart started its beat again! Grateful! 💯
Hi. I done everything like on yout tutorial and now I cannot go into Windows... It says that User account cannot be upload... I think the problem is when I typed O (zero) in State... Because i tried multiple times without that and it kepp logged me into temporary account... Now when i turn on the computer im not able to go to desktop becasu Sign in User profile is rejected...
I've done the second method and im using a new account now. I've transferred all files. But my google chrome bookmarks are gone.. Any way to recover them? Also right click mouse kinda has a 5 second delay
Hi, thanks for the tip. A couple of questions though:
1) Can I delete the .bak registry entry afterwards IF this procedure works?
2) Should I do this procedure in Safe Mode regardless if I get the message that the User Profile Service failed?
Thanks in advance.
Jose Lorico Do not delete the key after the fix and yes you can proceed in safe mode even with that message. Good luck!
Oh my God...... thanks a lot!! It's been days and I'm getting desperate in finding way to fix this problem. Thank you so much!!
Btw what probably caused this problem?? Is it because my Windows isn't installed perfectly? Is it safe to do these steps over again if (hopefully not) this happens in the future??
Thanks. Again.
Unfortuantely there are too many reasons why this could of happened. Glad to hear your computer is back on the road and thanks for watching.
Do I need to be on safe mode for method one? I did it on safe mode and when i log off, my files were back but I was still in safe mode. So I restarted, but then the problem comes back.
@alwaysafix Thank you so so much for this video, I still cannot believe that I managed to get my profile back. I thought I had lost everything and got very upset about it. Then I decided to give your video a try on RUclips and I am so releived.. I can breathe again haha..
Happy days and glad to be of help. Thanks for watching.
I have tried doing this an even when I create a new profile it says preparing desktop any insight on this and another thing when I go into safe mode it will show my profile an all contents
After this step you'll failed to login your profile, you'll need to:
1. restart your pc and hit repeat f8 button
2. select Safemode
3. go to regedit and follow these steps again
4. HKLM - Software - Microsoft - Windows NT - CurrentVersion - ProfileList
5. Reverse the extension ".bak" for those two folders, like the steps shown here
6. Now your done in renaming, click the folder without ".bak"
7. Select and double click RefCount and set the Value "0"
8. Select and double click state and set the Value "0"
9. Restart your laptop/PC and problem solved.
Note: Do this step in Safemode.
Hope these will help.
i dont know but i am not able to see ref count pls reply
It doesnt let me run it saying server process could not be started because the configured identify is incorrect. Check the username and password
Um so I tried doing the .bak thing when I restarted my computer it didn't work, I checked the regedit and then checked the profiles and the .bak was the temp file and there was no file to my actual file of my .bak with my old profile, is there anyway to get it back??? Please help
hello this has happened to me yesterday :( I will try your first method because i don't feel like copying all the data because i might miss some data by accident so i will try avoid the 'create new user'method if i can
Dude, I was scared as hell when I saw my computer was set back to the way it was when I first got it.. Thank you so much for the help!😫❤️
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In 2 min i fixed the problem,,just following your steps...loveeee uuu
Thank you very much, you helped me a lot, but if I opened this new user I deleted all my files on my computer? Thank you
If you create a new user, your files from previous users will not be affected, only if you run a factory restore can you lose your data. Thanks for watching.
Safe mode by f8 not working it says press esc for startup? What should I do?
I did it and now the pc doesn't boot and having the "Your pc ran into a problem.... Loop again and again"
The regedit does not work for me. I can view my files in safe mode. Should I change the regedit in safe mode?
I have a TOSHIBA and I just restarted the pc and it was fixed, I don't know if I was like or not but it worked :D
alwaysafix Thank you for providing a meaningful video. However, I don't know why I have followed your second method, the computer doesn't allow me to enter user2. It keeps forcing me to log in with the original user, I can't manage to make another user to restore my original desktop setting. Is my computer getting totally out of order? Looking forward to your reply.
Run a checkdisk to check that the hard disk is healthy. Good luck!
What if you don't have a .bak file in the users
Help please, "Error while deleting key." I can rename the .bak file, but i cannot delete the duplicate.
Your wizard guy saved my bacon
Hello my friend . I would like to thank you very much for your help. I also would like to ask you something about my situation. I did all the steps you showed but in the final step i found 3 .bak files. From those 3 , the two of them had the copy files which i renamed as you said. The third one , the one with no copy file , i left it as it was. The problem solved but i would like to know if i should do anything else. Thank you again.