User Profile Service failed the logon

[sathyan]

My folks are coming for the holidays and I wanted to create a limited account on my Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) machine for them. I already have two accounts on the machine: an administrator account and a limited account for my daily use; both of these account were created when I installed Windows.
I logged in as Administrator and went through the control panel steps to add a new account, logged out and tried to login to the new account but got this error message:
"The User Profile Service failed the logon."
My other two accounts still work. I've tried the following:
1. rebooting; same error message.
2. Removing the new account; rebooting; recreating the new account; same error message.
3. Instead of creating a new named account, enabling the Guest account; same error message.
I'm stumped. Basically I want an account that provides a web browser w/o my homepage/cookies/saved passwords and is limited in what it can do to the system. (Maybe I should just dual-boot Chrome OS 🙂

 

[snikt]

If you know for sure the account was actually created, i.e. you can see the actual profile in the Users folder, something, somehow, might have become corrupt. See if this helps

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/fix-t...ailed-the-logon-user-profile-cannot-be-loaded

 

[GeekDrew]

The times I've seen that error, so far, it has been because Windows encountered a security deny ACL on a file in the "Default User" (i.e. c:\users\default\) when it was copying files from that folder to the user folder for that user (that it is in the process of creating). I solved it by looking at the ACLs on the files in the default folder, and adjusting the one that had somehow been changed to deny.