Windows 7 logon issue...

[Grant66]

Calling PC expert, please help its driving me huts,

Strange problem with t'other half's laptop. Her profile got corrupted (so the interweb said) so I made her a new account, copied files etc into the new profile PITA. All was well for a few weeks. Then after shutting down, the logon screen wouldn't allow her to log on. If you select "switch user" it allows me to log onto my profile. Once logged on and started up I can then 'switch user' from the start menu and the profile loads and logs on OK.

If I start PC log on as me then log off, her account still doesn't logon. It will only logon if another admin account is running.

Would the fact I've called her new profile "carol 2" be the problem? Is Win 7 anal about spaces?

If that is the problem can I rename the user folder and the registry "ProfileImagePath" to fix it? Don't want to do the pain of copying all those chuffing files again.

[SoulKiss]

Calling PC expert, please help its driving me huts,

Strange problem with t'other half's laptop. Her profile got corrupted (so the interweb said) so I made her a new account, copied files etc into the new profile PITA. All was well for a few weeks. Then after shutting down, the logon screen wouldn't allow her to log on. If you select "switch user" it allows me to log onto my profile. Once logged on and started up I can then 'switch user' from the start menu and the profile loads and logs on OK.

If I start PC log on as me then log off, her account still doesn't logon. It will only logon if another admin account is running.

Would the fact I've called her new profile "carol 2" be the problem? Is Win 7 anal about spaces?

If that is the problem can I rename the user folder and the registry "ProfileImagePath" to fix it? Don't want to do the pain of copying all those chuffing files again.

Copy all her data off and re-install windows.

Its the easiest way of fixing this.

Seriously, you could spend hours/days getting to the bottom of this, when a coupld of hours copying data off, re-installing then copying data back on would have it up and running.

[TheOnlyNemesis]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/139810-sfc-scannow-run-command-prompt-boot.html

[Grant66]

Thanks, was hoping to avoid the wipe and start again, no idea where my disk is :'(

Sent from my Arc S using Tapatalk. Any smelling mistakes are the fault of the spell cheaper.

[SoulKiss]

Thanks, was hoping to avoid the wipe and start again, no idea where my disk is :'(

Sent from my Arc S using Tapatalk. Any smelling mistakes are the fault of the spell cheaper.

It probably has a recovery partition or a tool to make a recovery DVD - what make/model laptop is it?

[Grant66]

Its a Compaq, probably came with a recovery partition but that went when Vista was replaced. I installed 7, from what I remember it was fairly painless (clean install) but I've moved house since then and the disk could be in a loft 300miles away.
Guess I'll have to get the key off this one (why didn't I put the sticker on <doh!>) and "find" an image for the install off the interweb.
It's probably a good oppertunity to upgrade her hard drive & remove all the cr4p she has accumulated over the last few years.

[Pimp Cat]

No need for a key, Just download a windows 7 loader and run that once win 7 is installed.
I can post a link to instructions / download if you want.

[Grant66]

Fixed :)

Ran netplwiz, seems it was trying to autologon to an account that didn't exist, odd as it had never been set up to auto logon.
Very odd that it had an effect when trying to logon even when the PC had been used on a different account.