Login Completely Blocked w/User Profile Service Failed the Login

[THNKIT]

My wife and I have been unable to Login & repeatedly get the above message.

I have looked on all the relevant threads noting the above and can't find a
solution because each solution requires 1) accessing "Start", 2) accessing
msconfig, 3) setting up a second administrator.

I can't fathom how to do any of the above solutions if I can't even logon to
go to them. Please help me get out of this loop and it will be much
appreciated.

 

[Smithsonian]

This is getting to be quite a problem with many people now. Your going to
have to find a program you can burn to a disk from another computer(if you
have one). Otherwise, theyre are limited options.
Try googling "reset windows vista password"
There should be a iso somewhere.
when you do get it reset, you may want to enable the administrator account
and write down the password somewhere
OR
create a password reset disc

 

[THNKIT]

Thanks for the idea. I can use a thumb drive if I know 1) what program to
download from my toshiba with windows & 2) how to get it onto my locked dell
if I can't get passed the Password prompt. I can't access start,
accessories, command prompt........nothing. Any ideas how/what to do from
here?

Thanks

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Above is the password program for an ISO file.

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Something for future reference about recovering passwords.

And MS's help to fix a corrupted user profile ifo is in link below.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/769495bf-035c-4764-a538-c9b05c22001e1033.mspx

 

[Melle]

i just had something like this.
if you have another hard drive with an operating system, plug it in, make
sure to sign in to that harddrive, go to computer, double sclick the hard
drive you can not access, and now you have access to it. not sure how yours
is set up but you can get to user profiles and make a new one just for log in
sake or change the one you are having problems with.

worked for me

 

[Melle]

having a second account proves to have benefits once again.
I assumed you did not have one(wasnt mentioned)so i tried to show another
way to access that harddrive which you where unable to log on to. that is if
you had a second harddrive , u select computer, then hard disk drive(not c),
then you have now bypassed login and access as if you had logged in. then go
about everyhting the same way, to makek a another "user account" to log on
or if possible (depending on the exact problem why you were locked out)mend
the problem, which in your case was restore. so basically i told you how to
do exactly what you soon realized,and did.