Is this notebook a domain member?
I did a search and came up with a number of links, but don't have enough
information to know whether or not any of them pertain to your situation.
Forgive me if you've already seen these, but I'll post them anyway. You can
look at them to see if they are directly related, or to see if they give you
any ideas as to how to troubleshoot this issue on your system.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-user-profile-service-failed-l...n-user-
I also found a lot of special case instances of this error while searching,
but those two scenarios above would be the most likely overall.
If anything at all is unusual about the account creation history on this
system it may be pertinent to solving the problem. So far we haven't
exchanged a lot of information -- not that it would be very easy to provide
enough background information on a problem like this, or to know which
information was important and which was not. But this does seem like it could
be a profile corruption issue or a group policy issue.
How many admin accounts (including the built-in one) are on this system. Is
the primary admin account disabled? Is UAC enabled or disabled? Have any
other major modifications to the security stance (including file system
permissions changes) of the machine been made?
"JP Consulting" wrote:
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> I created a limited user account using the Control Panel Users app.
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> There is no policy in place to prevent login by users with no password.
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> John
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> JP Consulting
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