Upon creating a new user and attempting to login, I'm receiving the following error message: "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." I'm running Windows 7 x64 SP1. My current setup is: C: drive (SSD) Program Files, Windows, ProgramData. X: drive (HDD) Users, and everything else. I use the Administrator account as my account. To set up the system, I created a temporary user, logged in, changed the registry to point the Users directory to the X: drive (and moved the Default and Public folders to the X:\Users directory). I then enabled the Admin account and logged in with it. This created my profile on the X drive. However, I'm trying to create another user account to test with. The account is named "Test". I receive the quoted error message upon attempts to log in. I checked the X:\Users folder and there is no profile for the Test account, not even a folder for it. I tried copying the Default profile and renaming it, but no dice. I also verified that the folder seemed to have the proper permissions (Full Control for System, Administrator, Administrators, as the Test account was an admin account as well). There is no entry in the registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ for the Test user, so I got a utility that could find that users' SID and created an entry for it, but still, I receive the original error message when trying to log in. Any ideas? Drew Green MCITP:EA, MCSE:S, MCSA:S, CCENT, Security+, Network+, A+ Working on: MCITP:Exchange 2010

Hi Drew Green, Thanks for posting in TechNet forum. After you moved the Default and Public folders to the X:\Users directory, you should also change the value under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList On the right pane, change these three value: Default = X:\User diretory\Default ProfilesDirectory = X:\User diretory Public = X:\User diretory\Public Note: Before you modify the registry, please backup firstly. After these change, then create a new user account to check if it works. Regards, Miya TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.comThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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