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General Computer Support / Re: Vista Help Pls - Bad Install (and then some!)
« on: October 01, 2015, 03:07:25 am »
After this afternoon's fixes, I noticed that, when logged in as Larry (me), I have two Downloads folders, two Documents folders as well as two folders each labeled Desktop, Music, Videos, and Pictures. In each case, one is empty and one contains my old stuff. The current profile for me points at the empty folder created at 9pm, about 4 hours after my last fix, so this must have happened when either I logged in. or when I ran sfc /scannow. I scanned through the registry looking at the services that continued to fail and the services that they depend on and came away with no good new clues. I've created boot log and logged on a couple of time in 'debug' mode and look forward to seeing their contents, but I need sleep so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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I just remembered what process I ran at 9pm-ish last night. We can blame "Windows Easy Transfer" for creating the new folders and restoring my data into the wrong place. I couldn't run the utility under my regular logon (dependency service wasn't available) so I let Windows make the move while logged in as Administrator. Today's task would seem to be finding out why Windows services load under one User and not another.
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I think I found the problem. I found a blank entry in the WinLogin\GPExtensions list that points to Administrative Templates. AND that starts up Userenv.dll which I do believe is the source of all my issues.
The GUID for the blank entry is 35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2.
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to create a reg file for me that will update the values as they should be for that logon task in Windows Vista.
I'm not sure how to pull a value out of an old registry backup from a few months ago or if it's even possible.
At least I see a twinkle of light at the end of this dark tunnel.
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I just remembered what process I ran at 9pm-ish last night. We can blame "Windows Easy Transfer" for creating the new folders and restoring my data into the wrong place. I couldn't run the utility under my regular logon (dependency service wasn't available) so I let Windows make the move while logged in as Administrator. Today's task would seem to be finding out why Windows services load under one User and not another.
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I think I found the problem. I found a blank entry in the WinLogin\GPExtensions list that points to Administrative Templates. AND that starts up Userenv.dll which I do believe is the source of all my issues.
The GUID for the blank entry is 35378EAC-683F-11D2-A89A-00C04FBBCFA2.
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to create a reg file for me that will update the values as they should be for that logon task in Windows Vista.
I'm not sure how to pull a value out of an old registry backup from a few months ago or if it's even possible.
At least I see a twinkle of light at the end of this dark tunnel.