Just a short THANK YOU. The User Hive Cleanup Service has CURED my
problem!

....JOe

Malke wrote:
> Joe Burnham wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > For some reason, my machine (2 year old Compaq Presario with MS XP Home
> > with SP 4) has started giving me "unable to load local user profile"
> > warnings at startup roughly every two weeks. The machine cannot load
> > EITHER of my profiles (Admin. or user). The only cure has been to do a
> > System Restore.
> >
> > This has been going on for at least 6 weeks.
> >
> > I run Spybot Search and Destroy, and AdAware regularly, and have the
> > free version of Zone Alarm, and AVG Antivirus (with current definition
> > updates) running on my system. None of this software has ever found a
> > problem.
> >
> > I've freed up space on the hard drive (on the theory that the problem
> > might be related to the system needing more free space).
> >
> > What can be done to resolve this problem? (I'm not a "computer
> > professional", just a "well seasoned" user who has been using computers
> > since DOS days..so please don't make your answers too reliant on me
> > having arcane knowledge of the deepest inner workings of XP.)
>
> I would do two things:
>
> 1. Install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service - http://tinyurl.com/2h3yl
> and test. If that solves the problem, great. If not, then
>
> 2. Run a diagnostic utility on the hard drive. Download the utility from the
> hard drive mftr.'s website (or use Seagate's SeaTools). You will create a
> bootable cd or floppy from the downloaded file. Boot with that media and do
> a thorough test of the hard drive. If the drive fails any physical tests,
> replace it.
>
> Since you are a "well seasoned" user, I assume that you've got your data
> already backed up.
>
> Malke
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