Windows Profile Cannot Be Loaded

[Anush Faigley]

Several Windows users have reported about the user profile cannot be loaded error that appears when trying to login into their Windows computers. For some users, the error occurs after they've performed a Windows update, while some experience it when trying to log in to a newly created local user account.

Generally speaking, the error can come up randomly when the Windows User Profile Service is unable to run during Windows startup as a result of damaged or corrupt files as well as conflicting processes on your computer. Fortunately, there are a number of proven solutions you can use to fix this issue and restore your PC to working order.

Therefore, if the user profile cannot be loaded error is keeping you from accessing your user account on a Windows PC, you should follow the guide below on how you may fix the issue as we have put together its best solutions.

Windows computers allow you to set up multiple user profiles, each of which will contain directories, files, and settings tailored to the user's preferences. A user profile can be customized to meet a particular requirement, and the contents available on that profile will be kept separate from those on other profiles on your computer.

There are various types of Windows User Profiles, and one of them is the local user account, which is further divided into a basic user account and an administrator account. The user profile option makes it simpler to share a computer with other users and manage your Windows computers.

Corrupt or damaged NTUSER.dat: Windows uses the NTUSER.dat file to store user profile settings and preferences; thus, if the file is corrupted or damaged, it could be why the user profile cannot be loaded. Typically, this corruption occurs during Windows updates or System Restore.

Conflicting User Profile Service configuration: The User Profile Service is a function of Windows that aids the running of user profiles on your computer. If there is a problem with the service, your user profile will be denied, and it will probably result in the user profile cannot be loaded error.

An issue with the Windows registry: The Windows Registry is referred to for the provision of necessary configuration elements to ensure the proper functioning of any process on your computer. However, the Windows Registry can sometimes become corrupted. If this impacts the user profile settings, you might, as a result, run into problems when attempting to open a user profile on your computer.

An alternative method to start your Windows computer is in safe mode, which will only allow a select few drivers and files to run on your computer. The user profile cannot be loaded error can be fixed using this method because there will only be a few processes or files running on your computer, allowing you to identify the program, process, files, or service that's causing the problem on your computer.

Furthermore, because corrupt software or files on your computer cause problems with the normal Windows startup and will not be loaded during the safe boot, this will be the only way you may access your Windows computer to fix the issue.

The data in the corrupted profile can be transferred to a new local user account that you create in safe mode if the issue persists. This can be done if you've attempted a number of fixes, but the problem continues, most likely because the user profile you're trying to access has become seriously corrupted.

After all these, you can log in to the profile, and copy data from the profile you were unable to access because the user profile cannot be loaded error. Also, to avoid data loss, you may backup user profile before you create a new one.

For those that created a System Restore Point before the issue arose, you can use the restore point to fix the issue and get your PC back to a working condition. Doing this will take your computer back to the way it was before you initiated the process that led to the user profile cannot be loaded error.

You will continue to encounter the user profile cannot be loaded error on your computer if the User Profile Service is not functioning properly or is disabled. Hence, you should restart the service and see if the problem has been resolved.

You might have disabled some Windows services while operating your Windows computer in a clean boot state, which could have resulted in errors like this one. Thus, you should switch to a normal startup to make sure everything is established so that your computer boots up without any problems.

User profile settings and preferences are stored in the NTUSER.dat file. Therefore, if the file becomes corrupted, it can be the reason why your computer is showing you the user profile cannot be loaded error. It is suggested that you replace the file by performing the steps listed below in order to resolve this issue in this instance:

We have covered several proven solutions you can apply to resolve the user profile cannot be loaded error if you ever experience it on your Windows computer. Although the issue may be resolved the first time, several Windows users have reported that it sometimes resurfaces. Hence, it is advised that you keep track of the third-party apps you use on your computer, as they are likely the root of the problem.

When my account wouldn't load "User profile cannot be loaded" I restarted, then when my account was finished with "preparing windows", I hit shut down, unplugged my USB-C hub (which had my android phone micro-sd card (64 gb (sandisk I believe)) in it), then I just started my laptop and everything was back to normal.

I rebooted the machine several times, before going into Safe Mode with Networking. For some reason, I cannot create a new account whilst in safe mode (I think it is to do with UAC, nothing with UAC is clickable).

It's possible that your user profile is not corrupted, but that Windows is having trouble loading it (think a bad hard drive). You can boot into the Windows 7 Recovery Console from your Windows 7 DVD. Open the command prompt and start a chkdsk.

Looking around I found this guide and forum detailing the problem and various solutions. I suggest having a read: there are 81 pages of additional posts after the guide so a working solution for you should be in there somewhere.

After you click the OK button, RDP session closes. Again, I can RDP into the server in question as Administrator, and as User A but User B, I cannot. Sounds like User B profile somehow became corrupted?

1502 - Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.

1500 - Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded. Check that you are connected to the network, or that your network is functioning correctly. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.

How much free space is on the system disk of the server?
If you browse to the location where their tsprofile should be, is the folder populated, does it even exist?
How large is it?
Check the users profile hive registry size as well - although that ones really out there as far as probability goes(IMHO)

After you successfully configure FSLogix following the Configure Profile Container, you realized that after several attempts FSLogix profile it is not loaded. Pressure to have this completed increases and frustration comes because you are not able to get this properly implemented, especially when it is super easy to configure! At this moment you decide to contact Microsoft Support.

This is an indication that a Local profile already exists, and it will take precedence over the FSLogix one and it will result in not having your FSLogix created. This will also impact you when you already have FSLogix profiles and they are not loaded. When this happens, users might complain that they have missing files like report that was created the day before. Since desktop might look similar, that document was stored in the local profile created in a previous session.

When you are already working with FSLogix and suddenly a local profile is created, most of the times it occurs because the location where you are storing your profiles was not reachable at the moment when the user was initiating session. You can observe that behavior looking at the profile log

You can easily look at the profile status in the computer by loading the FSLogix Profile status tool located in C:\Program Files\FSLogix\Apps. Open the frxtray.exe and then double click the icon in the system tray

If you need to delete a local profile, please do it using the User Profiles window by going Computer properties, Advanced system settings, Advanced and the under User Profiles click settings button. If the user it is not logged you will see that profile type will be listed as Local

Step #1. I opened Windows PowerShell in admin mode (on windows searchbar search for Windows PowerShell) > right click choose the option Run as administrator. You will be prompted again just click on OK

Step 3: Close the terminal and move back to where you were previsouly running the command and test it. Like in my case I was having a problem when doing sass -- watch as you can see it now works

By default the checkbox is checked. If you want to set that click Apply and it set the execution policy to Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser. Then checkbox and Apply button get disabled.

To fix this you may need to follow fix-windows-powershell-updated-your-execution-policy-successfully, but the setting is overridden by a policy defined at a more specific scopeor check answers in here. cannot change the Execution Policy

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