User Account Login Problem In W7

I have 2 user accounts setup in W7/Pro/32. When I log off one and try to login to the other, I get a temporary user login start up. I use my LUA most of the time, but some appls require that I be logged into my Admin Account. The problem did not occur for several months on W7... it is new. I sought help on the MS forum and noticed that several users were experiencing the same problem. Here is a link ...
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...f-b2e6a0a05479

I tried the XP tool for user account clean up in compat mode (that did not work). I am hesitant to make registry changes as I really do think they are too risky and if the problem is MS based, it will only come back (guess on my part). I ran a disk scan for errors (ran clean).

Lots of users complained about this in XP, though I have never had the problem there. I have not seen it on my Vista system either.

A god number of the MVP moderators on MS think it is related to what AV is installed, but I have noticed that the users with this problem have many different AVs installed. I have MSE (if this is an MSE problem with User Accounts then should MS not come up with a fix!).

It is not an 'end of the world' problem ... but it sure is annoying. Anybody else here experiencing this problem?

[J_L]

Can you post a screenshot? I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about.
Does some startup applications trigger the UAC and asks for your admin account + password?

Originally Posted by J.L.

Can you post a screenshot? I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about.
Does some startup applications trigger the UAC and asks for your admin account + password?

It only happens when I logoff the account that I am currently using and try to logon to my other account. I select the account I want to log onto and instead of getting the password screen, W7 proceeds with a 'temporary profile' startup. It is the same problem that the users describe in the link I provided. I have to reboot to get access to my second account.

[tushR]

If profile deletion (corrupt profile) is an option then google seems to be unanimous with this solution:
Delete the profile from control panel.
Delete your profile key from : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList (this appears to be quite safe to delete).
Again if you want, test it in a VM first.
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Not a fix, but still your issue should get resolved.

Originally Posted by tushR

If profile deletion (corrupt profile) is an option then google seems to be unanimous with this solution:
Delete the profile from control panel.
Delete your profile key from : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList (this appears to be quite safe to delete).
Again if you want, test it in a VM first.
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Not a fix, but still your issue should get resolved.

Tnx for sending this to me. I appreciate your help. Before I go ahead and give this a try, I need to understand just what gets deleted if I implement the suggestion. Will I have 2 profiles still operational (do not want it deleting my Admin profile ... I'm sure you can understand my concern).

NB: I looked in the event logs and seen a few warnings concerning user profiles. Here is one...

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service
Date: 20/06/2010 9:52:58 AM
Event ID: 1530
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: 200
Description:
Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.

DETAIL -
1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-105396682-3677333742-1938267391-1003:
Process 3300 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\winlogon .exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-105396682-3677333742-1938267391-1003

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service" Guid="{89B1E9F0-5AFF-44A6-9B44-0A07A7CE5845}" />
<EventID>1530</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-06-20T13:52:58.604884800Z" />
<EventRecordID>9338</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="1016" ThreadID="4820" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>200</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData Name="EVENT_HIVE_LEAK">
<Data Name="Detail">1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-105396682-3677333742-1938267391-1003:
Process 3300 (\Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\winlogon .exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-105396682-3677333742-1938267391-1003
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

[tushR]

Deleting the profile and reg key should delete everything in your profile - say anything in my document, desktop...files at your root directory should be ok.

Event logs are beyond my level of understanding..., calling some real techie's for help