Windows 11 login stuck on corrupt profile

[JammyDodger]

On 03/07/2023 at 23:49, Warwagon said:

Actually

If you do a regedit from the CMD Recovery Console. Once the registry editor loads, highlight hkey_local_machine and click file load hive, then navigate to your Windows directory's hive (c:\windows\system32\config)

Then once loaded give it a name. Then edit what you need to edit. Then highlight the loaded hive and click file / unload hive.

In WinRE, regedit cannot load/unload hives. The menu items are ghosted out.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 03/07/2023 at 17:54, JammyDodger said:

In WinRE, regedit cannot load/unload hives. The menu items are ghosted out.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Usually, you first need to click and highlight the name "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". At that point "Load Hive" will become clickable

[JammyDodger]

On 03/07/2023 at 23:56, Warwagon said:

Usually, you first need to click and highlight the name "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE". At that point, the only option that will be clickable is "Load Hive"

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[xMorpheousx416]

Similar to XP's "Documents and Settings" folders.. (hidden in Windows 10)... you go moving folders that are the foundation of the OS, it cracks... crumbles and falls. Some things weren't meant to exist.

 

[JammyDodger]

On 02/07/2023 at 15:39, Mockingbird said:

Press the shift. Select Power then Restart.

Choose an option > Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart

Press 4 for Enable Safe Mode

Login to your user account as usual.

Run regedit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Two of the keys will be [something] and [something].bak

Rename [something] to [something].rename

Rename [something].bak to [something]

Rename [something].rename to [something].bak

Reboot

Done!

I did this and now, when I try to login to my personal account, I get a different error message:

"The gpsvc failed the sign-in. Try again."

So the Group Policy Service isn't happy

 

[xMorpheousx416]

On 03/07/2023 at 19:38, JammyDodger said:

I did this and now, when I try to login to my personal account, I get a different error message:

"The gpsvc failed the sign-in. Try again."

So the Group Policy Service isn't happy

 

At this point, I'm all for saying "you're kicking a dead horse".

Good luck.

[binaryzero]

Congrats, you've borked your machine. Classic pebkac.

Before you re-install Windows, go buy a bigger disk so you won't do stupid ###### again.

 

[leonsk29]

On 03/07/2023 at 22:30, binaryzero said:

Congrats, you've borked your machine. Classic pebkac.

Before you re-install Windows, go buy a bigger disk so you won't do stupid ###### again.

 

Why do you have to be such an ###### all the time with everyone? Yes, he ######ed up, but so did everyone here at some point, including you. Let's hope he learned from this mistake for the future.

Oh no, wait, you're perfect, I forgot...

[xMorpheousx416]

On 03/07/2023 at 21:30, binaryzero said:

Congrats, you've borked your machine. Classic pebkac.

Before you re-install Windows, go buy a bigger disk so you won't do stupid ###### again.

 

I'm curious... just how BIG a disk is needed for intelligent computer use? 

 

[Mockingbird]

On 03/07/2023 at 17:38, JammyDodger said:

I did this and now, when I try to login to my personal account, I get a different error message:

"The gpsvc failed the sign-in. Try again."

So the Group Policy Service isn't happy

 

From earlier:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\[something]

Change the value of State to 0

Change the value of RefCount to 0

[+Matthew S. Subscriber²]

On 04/07/2023 at 13:32, xMorpheousx416 said:

I'm curious... just how BIG a disk is needed for intelligent computer use? 

 

A very big disk.

[xMorpheousx416]

On 03/07/2023 at 19:38, JammyDodger said:

I did this and now, when I try to login to my personal account, I get a different error message:

"The gpsvc failed the sign-in. Try again."

So the Group Policy Service isn't happy

 

Have you been able to get things back up and running?

Just curious.

[2000user]

Have you tried Windows Login Unlocker? If you'd rather not mess with the existing profiles, new admin account can be made.

Edited July 7, 2023 by 2000user

[JustGeorge]

For future reference, next time you want to save space on your main drive, just create folders for Dox, Pix, DLDs etc. on your secondary drive. 

Once that's done, go back to your main user directory, right-click on your default folders -> Properties -> Location Tab and change the location to the respective folder on your secondary drive. 

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 07/07/2023 at 20:31, JustGeorge said:

For future reference, next time you want to save space on your main drive, just create folders for Dox, Pix, DLDs etc. on your secondary drive. 

Once that's done, go back to your main user directory, right-click on your default folders -> Properties -> Location Tab and change the location to the respective folder on your secondary drive. 

THIS!

[xMorpheousx416]

Bit off topic, but yeah... I haven't used the User's folder (docs/pics/etc) since XP. OS/Apps are on the main drive, pics/docs/games/music/media... all the rest of it, are on secondary drives.

 

But... would really like to know if Jammy got the system back up and running.