Solved New created user account in Vista doesn't log on

[BRK03]

Hi. Pls, help. I know there are some old threads about this issue, but they didn't help me.

Home laptop, Acer, running Vista Home premium. I tried to maintain it properly.
It has two user accounts, one with admin rights, another standard.

Yesterday I tried to create a third user account, standard user. I did it running as admin and through Control panel/User accounts. Then at the same panel I activated parental control to that user. Also, using McAfee I set parental control for the same account too.

I logged off from admin account. I saw my new user account icon, clicked on it.
But I got two messages. One on small window, which said "Cannot change Visible in OnShow or OnHide." This window had "OK" button. After clicking it, I saw another message: "The User Profile service failed the log on. User Profile cannot be loaded"
After that the laptop logged off automatically and brought me to log on screen with icons for user accounts. And I can log on with my original user accounts.

Pls help me solve this problem. I found some threads about this problem, but they are not helpful so far. Deleting a new user account and creating another one, with different name, doesn't make difference.

 

[Brink]

Hello BRK03, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Since you are still able to log on to your administrator account, you should be able to go straight to and use OPTION ONE in the tutorial below to hopefully fix this error. Be sure to read all of the tutorial for other available options if that one doesn't help.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/1...-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[BRK03]

Re: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

Actually here's the easier way which worked for me (no need to fiddle w/registry):

1. Log in to an administrator account.
2. Create a new user account and make it an administrator type account (you must make it an administrator type account, it will not work for a standard user account).
3. Restart your computer in safe mode (press and hold F8 while computer boots, before Windows splash picture appears). Select 'Safe Mode' from the list.
4. Choose the new account as the account you want to log in to.
5. Once you have logged on to the new account in safe mode, you can restart the computer, log in as normal to the new account, and change it to a standard user type account.

 

[Brink]

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

That wouldn't always work for everyone though.