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gigaday:
I’m new to tweaking.com forums so please bear with me if you can.

The first I knew that I had a problem was that a USB microphone driver failed, the microphone would not work and the driver wouldn’t uninstall. I thought I would simply have to restore the Windows Registry with System Restore and all would be well.

However, try as I might using advice from various web sites, I could not recovery any old versions of the registry and System Restore always failed with error 0x80070005. So I started looking for registry backup and restore programs and tweaking.com’s Registry Backup looks like it should do the job and give me a way of keeping the Registry up to date without a working Windows System Restore.

I have done some practice backup/restores with Registry Backup and it seems to work in that the Registry does get restored but I am unsure that I am using the best options and I do get an error when I restore.

The error I get with the Registry Backup after restoring is “The User Profile Service failed to sign in. User profile cannot be loaded”. But I can log in and my desktop looks as it should.

Would I be best to use Volume Shadow Copy from now on or Fallback?

Can I repair the Profile error that I get after I use Registry Backup to restore?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Tony

Boggin:
That error code denotes some form of Access Denied which could be caused by your antivirus program.

You haven't said which version of Windows you are using, but boot up into Safe Mode and try the normal restore points again.

Your antivirus program as well as other 3rd party programs will be isolated in that mode.

However, there have been problems for some in using system restore in Win 10 - and me included in that the machine wouldn't boot on the restart.

Because of this, when I advise someone to try their restore points, I advise them to first create a Hiren's Boot Disk.

I successfully used the 15.2 version but there is a later version which you could also make a disk for.

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/6966-hirens-bootcd.html

The failure to uninstall that driver could be because of a problem with the system files.

This dism cmd is for Win 8.1 and Win 10 while the sfc /scannow can also be used on Win 7.

Open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter -

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

sfc /scannow

Then enter shutdown /r /t 00 to effect an immediate reboot and try the driver uninstall again.

The dism cmd should report as either successful or that it has fixed something while the sfc /scannow will report no integrity violations or that it has repaired some file corruption.

How did you try uninstalling that driver - was it from Programs and Features or from within Device Manager ?

gigaday:
Thanks for your suggestions. Yes sorry, I should have said Windows 8.1.

I will follow the steps you suggest and see how it turns out.

Tony

gigaday:
Yes, I can now successfully Restore with Windows 8.1 System Restore! Huge thanks for your help!! And I am using Tweaking.com Registry Backup as well.

The problem was being caused by the unsuccessful driver uninstall, there was an Unknown Device in Device Manager - I should have spotted it sooner, but I don't do these sorts of things everyday.

On your advice I have created a Hiren's Boot Disk. And I have also bought Tweaking.com Windows Repair in the hopes that I don't have to use it much. Thanks!!

Tony

Boggin:
Glad to see that things have worked out and that should please Shane that you have bought the repair program - he spends a lot of time on it to keep it up to date because of the changes to Win 10 with each Windows Update.

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