Hi, been googling this issue and just wanted to get an idea of how this happened.
I'm used to Vista acting out (even when all my scans come up clean), but recently I had to reinstall Vista as my admin account was corrupted. I could get into it in safe mode, but as I didn't know where to go from there, I decided to just wipe it.
Basically, one day for no apparent reason, my admin account gave me this message:
"The user profile service failed the log on. User profile cannot be loaded."
My standard account had still worked fine, so I don't get how this happened. Most of the threads I see are about restoring to earlier date and other stuff, but what I really want to know is why.
Why would this happen just randomly out of the blue? Is Vista really that buggy?
Also had one more question - no matter how many times I restart, check for updates or anything, I can't get Vista Service pack 2 to pop up in windows update (people have told me it's out).
And, I had this problem before I formatted as well. I just don't get it. I have tried time after time to download it manually, but if it gets interrupted for any reason and for any amount of time, no matter how short, the file becomes unusable and I have to start all over again.
I have no idea what's causing this, and it just ticks me off. At this point if I could take my mac mini cds and install Jaguar I would be one very happy camper.
I emailed Microsoft, but they basically completely ignored my actual question and focused on telling me to install the SP (LOL).