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You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947215
You receive a "The User
Profile Service failed the
logon” error message
Symptoms
When you log on to a Windows 7-based or a Windows Vista-based
computer by using a temporary profile, you receive the following error
message:
The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be
loaded

Resolution
Occasionally, Windows might not read your user profile correctly, such as if
your antivirus software is scanning your computer while you try to log on

Before you follow the methods here, try restarting your computer and
logging on with your user account again to resolve the issue. If you restart
your computer and it does not resolve this issue, use the following methods
to resolve this issue

Note You must be able to log on to an administrator account to fix your
user profile or copy your data to a new account. Before you resolve the
issue, log on to Windows by using another account that has administrative
permissions, or restart in safe mode to log on with the built-in
administrator account. For more information about how to start in safe
mode, visit the following Microsoft website:
Start your computer in safe mode
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Method 1: Fix the user account profile
To fix the user account profile, follow these steps:
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to
modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify
the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps
carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it

Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information
about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows How to
back up and restore the registry in Windows
1. Click Start, type regedit in the Search box, and then press ENTER

2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
3. In the navigation pane, locate the folder that begins with S-1-5 (SID
key) followed by a long number

4. 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 starting with S-1-5 followed by some
long numbers and one of them ended with .bak, you have to
rename the .bak folder. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Right-click the folder without .bak, and then click
Rename. Type .ba, and then press ENTER

b. 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

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

If you have only one folder starting with S-1-5 that is followed
by long numbers and ends with .bak. Right-click the folder, and
then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of the folder name,
and then press ENTER

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

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

7. Close Registry Editor

8. Restart the computer

9. Log on again with your account

Method 2: Log on to Windows and copy your data to a new
account
Create a new account and copy the data from the old account to the new
account. For information about how to do this, visit one of the following
Microsoft websites:
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Windows 7
Fix a corrupted user profile (Windows 7)
Windows Vista
Fix a corrupted user profile (Windows Vista)
Method 3: Delete the error SID and create a new profile
To delete the error SID and create a new profile, follow these steps:
1. Delete the error SID

To have us fix this problem for you, go to the "Fix it for me" section. If
you would rather fix it yourself, go to the "Let me fix it myself" section

Fix it for me
To fix this problem automatically, click the Fix this problem link. Then
click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this
wizard

Download
Notes
This wizard may be in English only, but the automatic fix also
works for other language versions of Windows

If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can
save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD, and then you
can run it on the computer that has the problem

Let me fix it myself
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you
how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if
you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you
follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the
registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a
problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and
restore the registry, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
To resolve this problem yourself, follow these steps:
1. Delete the profile by using the Computer Properties dialog box

To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click
Properties

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b. Click Change settings

c. In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced
tab

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d. In the User Profiles area, click Settings

e. In the User Profiles dialog box, select the profile that you
want to delete, click Delete, and then click OK

2. Click Start, type regedit in the Search box, and then press
ENTER

3. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. Right-click the SID that you want to remove, and then click
Delete

2. Log on to the computer and create a new profile

Advanced information
This error may occur if the "Do not logon users with temporary profiles"
Group Policy setting is configured

This error may also occur if the user profile folder was deleted manually. A
profile folder that is manually deleted does not remove the Security
Identifier (SID) from the profile list in the registry

WARNING: We strongly recommend AGAINST making this the
standard way to remove user profiles from computers. The documented
and supported approach is by using the Advanced System Settings in the
system properties, "User Profiles" settings. For programs, this is available by
using the "DeleteProfile" API

If the SID is present, Windows will try to load the profile by using the
ProfileImagePath that points to a nonexistent path. Therefore, the profile
cannot be loaded

Event log information
The following events are logged in the Application log:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service
Date: Date
Event ID: 1515
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
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