Computer fails to boot up.

[angie brown]

The computer comes on with the following message:

User Environment. Windows cannot load the user's profile
but has logged you on with the default profile for the
system.
DETAIL: A required privilege is not held by the client.
When you click okay, it reboots and just keeps going back
to the same screen.

The computer just started doing this. How can I get it to
boot up properly?

 

[Navin R. Johnson]

The computer comes on with the following message:

User Environment. Windows cannot load the user's profile
but has logged you on with the default profile for the
system.
DETAIL: A required privilege is not held by the client.
When you click okay, it reboots and just keeps going back
to the same screen.

The computer just started doing this. How can I get it to
boot up properly?

Can you boot into Safe Mode? If so, try running a System Restore from
there. Go back a couple of days and see if that helps.

NRJ

 

[Guest]

Found out this is caused by a corrupt user profile. I took my hard drive and hooked it up as a slave drive in my win98 computer and then copied some files from the default user profile over the ones in my user profile and then put it back in the computer and it booted up. I had to do a restore point to get everything working right but it works now!

 

[Dirk]

Hi,

this is going to be strange but I had the exact same problem. I
worked with it all afternoon, including visiting these google groups.
The only solution offered was to hook up the drive as a slave to a
working drive, copying the profiles, and so on and so forth.

In frustration I went back to the damaged computer and when it began
it's 30 second countdown began clicking like mad all around the
countdown and user log in buttons, without actually hitting the
buttons and, honest to god, suddenly the countdown and message
disappeared. The computer then continued loading the settings and
then the desktop came up.

After it came up I went to the user profiles section in the control
panel and saw that, strangely, a new third profile was there with some
very nonsense name, probably somehow installed from a virus or a piece
of adware.

Anyway, I am in the middle of spybotting and ad-awaring the pc,
deleting the profile, etc. and hopefully it won't have this problem
again.

 

[Sandeep Pulla]

In frustration I went back to the damaged computer and when it began
it's 30 second countdown began clicking like mad all around the
countdown and user log in buttons, without actually hitting the
buttons and, honest to god, suddenly the countdown and message
disappeared. The computer then continued loading the settings and
then the desktop came up.

ROTFL... yeah I saw this happen too except that the machine would boot
anyway (regardless of the clickfest).