Profile 'Admin' user lost, no password, how to recover?
Hello. For the first time in 3 years, I found myself cursing my PC Windows Vista Home Premium.
It is not let me on the admin account, even to set the clock!
Every now and then, an update of Windows appears in the trash BIOS, and on the PC startup settings, BIOS rely you and complains that the checksum is invalid. Until today there has never been a problem; I just have to reset the date and time and all is well.
Today, I got the bleating BIOS, started in Windows and connected with my normal user account.
When I tried to change the settings of the clock, Windows asked my admin password, but then told me that I didn't have permission to change the clock.
I disconnected my user account and tried to log in as an administrator. He refused, saying that the user profile service failed to load the profile. There is absolutely no way I'm getting the wrong password, so my guess is that something trashed profile admin for me.
I was able to run rstrui.exe and restored to the oldest restore point that I could find (April 14, about 3 weeks ago). When it prompted me for my admin password, there is no problem. However after restoring I still cannot connect as an administrator; It gives the same error to be unable to load the profile.
Then, what on earth can I do to recover the admin profile?
Out of curiosity I tried to use the file browser to go to c:\users\admin, but he asked my admin password then impossible to open the file (it gives no error either).
Any help would be welcome!
Thank you.
Stephen.
PS. I'm pretty computer, but only really on Linux/Unix systems, where the cry for help! :-)
See if this helps:
http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-AU/help/769495bf-035C-4764-A538-c9b05c22001e1033.mspx
Difficulty of a corrupted user profile
After creating the profile, you can copy the files from the existing profile. You must have at least three user accounts on the computer to perform these operations, including the new account that you created.
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http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/947242
A temporary profile is loaded after you connect to a Windows Vista-based system
See you soon.
Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner
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